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The Derozio affair: An annal of early Calcutta
Published in Economic and Political Weekly
2017
Volume: 52
   
Issue: 36
Pages: 54 - 60
Abstract
Hindu College was set up in Calcutta in 1817 as a pioneering institution to impart Western learning to its students. In 1831, its most outstanding teacher, Henry Louis Vivian Derozio, then only 22 years old, was compelled to resign. A look at the circumstances that forced his resignation attempts to reconstruct Derozio's ideas and his teaching methods. The episode offers a glimpse of the intellectual ambience of early 19th-century Calcutta.
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JournalEconomic and Political Weekly
PublisherEconomic and Political Weekly
ISSN00129976