Answer» Correct Answer - Option 4 : Young Bengal Movement.
The correct answer is Young Bengal Movement. - The leader and inspirer of the Young Bengal Movement were the young Anglo-Indian Henry Vivian Derozio.
- A radical trend arose among the Bengali intellectuals during the late 1820s and the 1830s.
- This trend was more modern than Raja Ram Mohan Roy’s ideology and is known as the “Young Bengal Movement.”
- Henry Louis Vivian Derozio was an Indian poet from the 19th century.
- He was also the assistant headmaster of ‘Hindu College’ in Kolkata.
- He is the influencer of the social movement called ‘Bengal Renaissance’.
- The Theosophical Society was founded by Madame Blavatsky and Col. Olcott in 1875 in New York.
- The movement was popularised by Annie Besant in India.
- Asiatic Society of Bengal, the scholarly society founded on Jan. 15, 1784, by Sir William Jones.
- The objective to initiate and enlighten the oriental knowledge available in history, scriptures, or regional texts in India or the Indian subcontinent.
- Allan Octavian Hume is the father of the Indian National Congress (1829 to 1912).
- Womesh Chandra Banerjee was elected as the first president of the first meeting of the Congress.
- The Indian National Congress, on 19 December 1929, passed the historic ‘Purna Swaraj’ – (total independence) resolution – at its Lahore session.
- A public declaration was made on 26 January 1930 – a day which the Congress Party urged Indians to celebrate as ‘Independence Day’.
- Jawaharlal Nehru was elected as President of the Indian National Congress in December 1929 at its annual session in the city of Lahore.
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