Ishwar Chandra gained the title Vidyasagar which means ocean of knowledge in Sanskrit. He earned the title when he was studying at the Sanskrit... View Article
Henry Vivian Derozio was a teacher at Hindu College at Calcutta, who promoted radical ideas and encouraged his students to question authority as... View Article
The Academic Association was started by Henry Louis Vivian Derozi - a firebrand teacher of Hindu College - along with his radical band of... View Article
The Derozians were a radical group of Bengali free thinkers who emerged from Hindu College. They named themselves after Henry Vivian Derozio, an... View Article
The Derozians were a radical group of Bengali free thinkers who emerged from Hindu College. They named themselves after Henry Vivian Derozio, a... View Article
The greatest contribution of Derozio was that helped discuss the ideas for social change already in the air. He also has the distinction of being... View Article
Derozio is still remembered due to him being a radical social reformer that propagated ideas to his students by encouraging them to debate freely... View Article
Henry Vivian Derozio died of Cholera at the age of 22. Known for starting the Young Bengal Movement, he was a radical thinker of his time... View Article
After a decade of decline, it was revived by Debendranath Tagore in 1843. A schism divided the organization in 1865, when Keshub Chunder Sen... View Article
Brahmo Samaj reformed Indian society by speaking out against social-evils like sati, child marriage etc. Through education they instilled in the... View Article
Raja Ram Mohan Roy is called the father of the modern Indian Renaissance due to the remarkable changes he instituted in 18th and 19th century... View Article
Raja Ram Mohan Roy was a social-reformer and the founder of the Brahmo Samaj that spearheaded a lot of socio-religious movements that sought to... View Article
Raja Ram Mohan Roy is famous for spearheading the religious and social reforms in India that called for the abolition of Sati and remarriage of... View Article
Peasants can be classified on the following basis: Basis of Land Ownership Size of Land Holdings Resource Ownership. In these categories the... View Article
The first peasant movement in India was started in Bihar under the leadership of Swami Sahajanand Saraswati, who formed the Bihar Provincial... View Article
Mangal Pandey, a Sepoy in the 34th Bengal Native Infantry, is credited with starting the Sepoy Mutiny on 29th March 1857 when he refused to use... View Article
The Sepoy Mutiny started in earnest on 10 May 1857. It started when 85 members of the 3rd Bengal Light Cavalry were broken out of prison by their... View Article
The Sepoy Mutiny, although a major uprising, ultimately failed to dislodge the British from India. The British East India company would regain... View Article
As per British Administration records, about 6000 British died in the Indian Mutiny. The casualty count for Indians is at 800,000. This includes... View Article
