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Bengal Renaissance: Navigating Radical Thought and Conservative Practices in Indian Society

This exploration delves into the Bengal Renaissance, highlighting the tension between radical theories and conservative practices shaping Indian governance. Key figures like Raja Ram Mohun Roy and movements such as Young Bengal are analyzed, alongside the establishment of educational institutions and the birth of civil society in Calcutta. We examine the impact of newspapers on press freedom and the evolution of women's rights. The colonial rhetoric of a civilizing mission and reforms like the abolition of Sati further illustrate the complexity of cultural and political identity in 19th-century India.

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Bengal Renaissance: Navigating Radical Thought and Conservative Practices in Indian Society

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  1. Indian Intellectual Response: ‘Bengal Renaissance’

  2. Radical Theory and Conservative Practice • Learning India and Creating Knowledge for Governance: Birth of Asiatic Society in 1784 • Orientalists ( Calcutta Madrasa 1780) and Anglophile • Utilitarians and the New Theory of Governance • Evangelicals and the Idea of Governance

  3. Indian Response • Raja Ram Mohun Roy(1772 - 1833 ) • Hindu College of Calcutta in 1817 and Sanskrit College (Kolkata) 1824 • Henry Vivian Derozio ((1809-1831) • Young Bengal Movement • Religious Reform and Politics of Association • Women’s Question

  4. Birth of Civil Society in Calcutta • The rise of New Elites • The News Papers and the idea of Press Freedom • Parthenon (1830), East India (1831), Enquirer (1831-34), Jnananvesan (1831-40), Hindu Pioneer (1835-40) and bengal spectator (1842-43). • Vidayasagar (1820-1891) , Women’s Question and the Idea of Indian Progress.

  5. Colonial Response • Rhetoric of Civilizing Mission and Conservative Practice • 1829 Abolition of Sati • Widow Remarriage Act • Agency in redefining the Society

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