Henry Louis Vivian Derozio The Young Bengal was a group of Bengali free thinkers emerging from Hindu College, Calcutta.
They were also known as Derozians, after their firebrand teacher at Hindu College, Henry Louis Vivian Derozio.
[1][2] The Young Bengal Movement peripherally included Christians such as Reverend Alexander Duff (1809–1878), who founded the General Assembly's Institution, and his students like Lal Behari Dey (1824–1892), who went on to renounce Hinduism.
Latter-day inheritors of the legacy of the Young Bengal Movement include scholars like Brajendra Nath Seal (1864–1938), who went on to be one of the leading theologians and thinkers of the Brahmo Samaj.
The main reason for their limited success was social conditions prevailing at that time which were not ripe for adoption of radical ideas.