Prominent Members
Prominent Derozians and Young Bengal group members who left a distinct mark in Calcutta society of the 1830s and 1840s were:
- Krishna Mohan Banerjee (1813–1885), whose conversion to Christianity raised a great storm
- Tarachand Chakraborti (1805–1855), prominent in the Brahmo Sabha and Young Bengal
- Sib Chandra Deb (1811–1890), a prominent Brahmo Samaj leader of Konnagar
- Hara Chandra Ghosh (1808–1868), judge of the Small Causes Court.
- Ramgopal Ghosh (1815–1868), a successful businessman and public speaker whose attacks on the Black Acts and criticism of the European protests against a well-intentioned government move to bring Europeans on a par with the natives in judicial treatment were landmarks
- Ramtanu Lahiri (1813–1898), publicly removed his sacred thread in 1851 and as a teacher became a centre of progressive thoughts
- Rasik Krishna Mallick (1810–1858), refused to swear by the holy Ganges water and ran away from his orthodox home
- Peary Chand Mitra (1814–1883), founded the Monthly Magazine in Bengali that set a non-journalistic style of writing intelligibly to all, including average women, and also took part in establishing the Calcutta Public Library in 1831 which became an intellectual forum
- Dakshinaranjan Mukherjee (1818–1887), donated the site for the Bethune College for women
- Radhanath Sikdar (1813–1870), caused a sensation by refusing to marry a child bride and thereafter rose to be a surveyor, mathematician, diarist, writer and public speaker
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