This presentation is of Indian Writing in English submitted to prof.Dr Dilip Barad, MKBU.

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2. Name : Aarti H. Vadher
Sem : 1
Paper no : 4
Topic : Henry Derozio and the Making
of Indian Modernity
Roll no : 9
Email id : artivadher10@gmail.com
Submitted : Department of English,
MKBU

4.  Born : 18 April 1809
 Died : 26 December 1831
 Occupation : Indian poet and Teacher of Hindu
College, Kolkata
 Language : English and Bengali
 Nationality : Indian
 Ethnicity : Anglo-Indian
 Genre : academic and educator
 Literary movement : Bengal Renaissance
 Notable works : To India – My Native Land

5.  Thepaperanalyzes Derozio’sroleincreating anenlightened
groupcalledyoungBengalwhoinculcated enlightenedhabits of
mind,ranging fromcritical inquiry tofreethinking atheism,and
broughtinwesternmodernitytoBengal.
 Derozio’smetrical poemTheFakeerofJungheeraandhisprose
writing revealhisconceptofaesthetics andideasofasyncretistic,
democraticculturewithinearlycolonialism.

6.  Astheinitiator oftheBengal Renaissancehecampaigned forthe
abolition ofthepracticeofwidowburning(sati) andintroduction
ofwidowremarriage.
 HespearheadedtheEurasian movementof1829-30 demanding
rightsforEurasiansasBritish subject.
 Notonlydid Derozio’sfollowersusedhisideas ofmodernitybut
alsoothersuchasRajaRammohanRoy,SwamiVivekanandand
BankimChandraChattopadhyay profitedbythem

7. TheBengalRenaissance
TheEurasianMovement

8.  Deroziocanofferusaglimpse oftheintellectual historyand
social lifeofearlynineteenthcenturyBengal.
 Wenowacknowledge thatthefirstfewdecadesofthenineteenth
century,theperiodDeroziooccupied,werethepioneeringdecades
thatlaid thefoundation oftheBengalRenaissanceinCalcutta, a
city dominatedbycastandreligion .

9.  Derozio’s influence on the Bengali
society and the Eurasian community of
the early nineteenth century was
profound.
 He eloquently campaigned for the
rights of Eurasians as British subject
and spearheaded the Eurasian
Movement of 1829-30.