India's First Radicals

In 1831 the editor of the India Gazette wrote a report about a group he called the Radicals Ultra-Reformers or the Ultras who were responsible for an unprecedented upheaval in social religious and political thinking centred in Calcutta. Later named Young Bengal these students of Henry Derozio at the Hindu College had embarked upon a collision course with orthodoxy and authority generating scandal and sensation in equal measure.Focusing on their activities twelve years later in 1843 this book exa...See More