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Indian Intellectual Response:

Indian Intellectual Response:. ‘Bengal Renaissance’. 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

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Indian Intellectual Response:

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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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