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WBCS Preliminary Examination 2015 — General Studies · Question 118 of 200

Q118
History of IndiaBritish Rule: Administration, Economy & Society
Who was the main inspirator of the Young Bengal Movement?
  1. a.Rammohan Ray
  2. b.Derozio
  3. c.Debendra Nath Tagore
  4. d.David Hare

Answer: (B) Derozio

Henry Louis Vivian Derozio was the main inspirator of the Young Bengal Movement. A teacher at Hindu College, Kolkata, Derozio was a radical thinker who inspired his students to question tradition and colonialism through reason. His students, known as Derozians or Young Bengal, became a force for intellectual revolution in Bengal.

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