Rammohun Roy
Derozio (1809-1831)
- Young Bengal Movement
- More radical
- taught at Hindu College from 1826 to 1831
- inspiration from French Revolution
- inspired his students to
- think rationally and freely
- to question all authority
- liberty, equality and freedom
- to worship truth
- attacked old and decadent customs, traditions and rites
- advocated women's rights and education
- failed because
- society was not yet ripe
- lost contact with masses, farmers
- radicalism was bookish
- succeeded in
- Rammohun's tradition of educating people in social, eco and political spheres through newspapers, pamphlets and public associations
- carried out agitations on public issues such as
- revision of company's charter
- freedom of press
- trial by jury
- protection of ryot's from oppressive zamindars
- better treatment of Indian labourers in British colonies
- employment of Indians in higher grades of public services
Debendranath Tagore
- 1839 - Tatvabodhini Sabha to propagate Rammohun's ideas
- 1843 - Reorganized Brahmo Samaj
Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar
- great champion of widow remarriage --> law was enacted
- child marriage, women education
- great humanist
- sanskrit scholar
- opened sanskrit education to all
- wrote a Bengali primer
- helped in evolution of modern prose style in Bengali
Bal Sastri Jambekar
- attacked Brahminical orthodoxy
- tried to reform Hinduism
- 1832 - weekly Darpan
Paramhans mandali in 1849
- believed in one god
- tried to break caste rules
Jotiba Phule
- girls school in 1851
- widow remarriage
- Vishnu Shastri Pandit founded Widow remarriage Association
- karsondas Mulji started the Satya Prakash in Gujarati to advocate widow remarriage
Lokhitwadi - Gopal Hari Deshmukh
- advocated reorg. of Indian society on rational principles and modern humanistic and secular values like that of Jyotiba Phule
Dadabhai Naoroji
- Reform in Zoroastrian religion
- agitation for equal rights to women in inheritance and marriage
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