H.L.V. Derozio’s Poetry: Freedom, Education and Early Indian English Literature
Henry Louis Vivian Derozio was a nineteenth-century poet and teacher in Calcutta and an important early figure in Indian English literature. His writing emerged at a time when English education, colonial power and new intellectual movements were reshaping public debate. His legacy invites readers to consider how poetry can question inherited assumptions and make room for independent thought. Writ…
