Who inspired the Young Bengal movement?

Correct option is C

​The correct answer is (c) Henry Vivian Derozio.

Explanation:

• Henry Vivian Derozio inspired the Young Bengal movement.
• In 1826 Henry Louis Vivian Derozio joined the Hindu College as a teacher at Calcutta.
• Within no time, he influenced many people in the college and encouraged them to think freely, and promoted radical ideas in his teachings. This is how the young Bengal movement started.​

Information Booster:

• Ramgopal Ghosh (15 January 1815 – 25 January 1868) was a leader of the Young Bengal Group, a successful businessman, orator and social reformer.
• Michael Madhusudan Datta (born Jan. 25, 1824, Sāgardari, Bengal, India [now in Bangladesh]—died June 29, 1873, Calcutta, India) was a poet and dramatist, the first great poet of modern Bengali literature.
• Krishna Mohan Banerjee was a 19th-century Indian thinker who attempted to rethink Hindu philosophy, religion and ethics in response to the stimulus of Christian ideas. He himself became a Christian, and was the first president of the Bengal Christian Association, which was administered and financed by Indians.