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Henry Louis Vivian Derozio (18 April 1809 – 26 December 1831) was an Indian poet and assistant headmaster of Hindu College, Kolkata. He was a radical thinker of his time and one of the first Indian educators to disseminate Western learning and science among the young men of Bengal .
Henry Louis Vivian Derozio, a teacher at Hindu College, Calcutta, in the 1820s, promoted radical ideas and encouraged his pupils to question all authority. Referred to as the Young Bengal Movement, his students attacked tradition and custom, demanded education for women and campaigned for the freedom of thought and expression.
‘To India – My Native Land’ by Henry Louis Vivian Derozio is a patriotic poem written during the period of the Indian Renaissance. When India was under British rule, deteriorating and suffering.
Henry Louis Vivian Derozio (born April 18, 1809, Calcutta, India—died Dec. 26, 1831, Calcutta) was a poet and assistant headmaster of Hindu College, Calcutta. He was a radical thinker and one of the first Indian educators to disseminate Western learning and science among the young men of Bengal.
Jan 3, 2024 · Henry Vivian Derozio was an influential figure during the Indian Renaissance. He was a poet, educator, and social reformer. Born on April 18, 1809, in Kolkata (then Calcutta), Derozio’s short but significant life contributed to social awakening in Indian society and literature.
Henry Louis Vivian Derozio was an Indian poet and teacher. He maintains a great legacy, regarded as the first national poet of modern India.
Dec 26, 2021 · These lines, from the poem To India – My Native Land, were written not by an Indian poet but by an Anglo-Indian named Henry Louis Vivian Derozio, widely considered the first Indian poet in English.
Henry Louis Vivian Derozio: Henry Louis Vivian Derozio was one of those rare poets, as Mary Ellis Gibson has observed, who at an early age achieved both passionate engagement with and sceptical detachment from his circumstances. In Derozio’s case, the circumstances are different.
Mar 5, 2016 · Thus, when the Calcutta-born Henry Louis Vivian Derozio announces in the preface to his 1827 Poems his candidacy for poetic fame, he makes a claim for acknowledgment as a singular figure.
Dec 8, 2021 · Henry Louis Vivian Derozio (1809-31), the tragic yet triumphant figure who initiated the movement that bears his name, was of Portuguese-Indian lineage—we would have called him an...
