Representing the renaissance of Bengal and the change of the then social system Describe the important contributions of different people. Bangabandhu's historic speech on March 7 in the context of the liberation war of Bangladesh Analyze the significance???
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Discuss the contribution of different important personalities for the renaissance in Bengal and the then changing of the social structure.
Explanation:
After the battle of Plassey, the Bengali nation entered into a dark age due to the political anarchy and the division among them. The degradation in the political life transformed into all aspects of life. As a result, economy, religion, literature, culture of the Bengali nation became trackless. Bengali nation gradually became hopeless and led life like a vessel in the ocean having no radar.
This tendency continued up to the nineteenth century until some enlightened Bengali scholars lit the light of education again. They were Raja Ram Mohon Roy,
Ishwar Chandra Bidyasagar, Raj Narayan Basu Haji Shariatullah, Nabab Abdul Latif, Sayed Ameer Ali, Sir, Syed Ahmad Khan. They urged for awakening and accept western education. With their lifelong effort, a sense of Bengali Nationalism grew among the educated Bengali middle class, which created a renaissance in Bengal.
Ram Narayan Misra, who was a clerk of a lawyer of Calcutta Court, first established an English school for educating Bengali youth to help them get the government jobs.
William Kerry was the first Christian missionary who established an English school and a press with the help of two other missionaries Mr. Marshman and William Ward Sreerampur of Calcutta to spread the Christianity. He translated Bible into Bangla Language. He also took steps to teach History, Geography, and Science etc. They followed the “Monitorial Method” of education in which, the learners of the upper class would teach the students of lower class.
In 1817, Mr. Hide East, the Justice of the Supreme Court and Baydyanath Mukharjee established Calcutta Hindu College, which is created an enlightened generation, Soon, Calcutta Presidency College was also published, in 1819 the first girls’ school was established in Calcutta. The most renowned Bengali scholars of
the nineteenth century were the production of this college. Though it was named as Hindu College, its teaching method was very progressive and liberal.
With these efforts’ western philosophy, thought, literature and science spread among the elite and the middle class of Calcutta. As a result, the newly educated scholars started to question on the age-old prejudices of the Indian society and called for reformation. Western education opened the Indian eyes and through this.
Renaissance means awakening. It means the freedom of thought. It comes thorough overthrowing the conservative outlook and the stagnant perceptions.
The scholars of nineteenth century helped the Bengali People to realize their shortcomings and gave them strength of questioning everything which helped
boldness of accepting the reality against social pressure.