Question

Derozio had to resign from his teaching post because of :

A. The pressure from his colleagues and opponents

B. His ill health

C. His interest in studies on vedas

D. The pressure from the Government to return back to England​

Answer 1

Answer:

A) Because of pressure from his colleagues and opponents.

Explanation:

Henry Louis Vivian Derozio was born on April 18, 1809. He was a radical thinker, a poet and assistant headmaster of the Hindu college. He was born to an Indian father and an English mother. Due to the spirit of English rationalism, he criticized orthodox Hindu practices which hurt the sentiments of Hindu students and their parents. Because of this, he was forced to resign by the directors of the Hindu college in 1831.

Answer 2

Answer:

(A) Derozio had to resign from his teaching post because of the pressure from his colleagues and opponents.

Explanation:

• Henry Louis Vivian Derozio, a poet and assistant headmaster at Hindu College in Calcutta, was born on April 18, 1809, in Calcutta, India.
• He was one of the first Indian educators to introduce Western science and learning to Bengal's young men.
• When he was 17, he began composing patriotic verses, which drew the attention of Calcutta's intellectual elite.
• In 1826, he was hired as an instructor at Hindu College, where he is said to have influenced and earned the allegiance of his students.
• His pupils founded the Academic Association in 1828, a debating group that attracted both British and Indians to debate religion and philosophy.
• Derozio questioned traditional Hinduism's social behaviors and religious beliefs in the spirit of English rationality.
• The directors of Hindu College forced him to retire in 1831 after he was accused of disrespect by his students' conservative Hindu parents.