ASSESSING RADICALISM IN EARLY NINETEENTH CENTURY BENGAL

Abstract

The Bengal Renaissance is a fascinating subject of study for various reasons. The leaders of thoughts and movements of this period are generally remembered as the first modern thinkers of Bengal as well as India. There is indeed as unsolved debate yet as to whether the Bengal Renaissance can be called a Renaissance at all in the true sense of the term. The most notable and acknowledged leaders of the Bengal Renaissance were Raja Rammohun Roy I, Rev. Krishna Mohan Banerjee. Dakshinaranjan Mukherjee. Akshaya Kumar Datta, Iswar Chandra Vidyasagar and the like. But the attitude of these leaders to British rule was not shared by many others.