Young Bengal - Prominent Members

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