Indian Stamps- Henry Louis Vivian Derozio-By India Post
Dec 15th, 2009 by IndianStampGhar.com
Stamps India- Henry Louis Vivian Derozio-By India Post
Henry Louis Vivian Derozio was born on 18th April 1809 in Calcutta, India. He was given formal education at the Dhurumtollah Academy of David Drummond at Calcutta. He belonged to the Anglo-Indian community of India and his father had the ancestors of India and Portugal while his mother was English. His father served in J Scott and company in Calcutta, with his own house property and was also able to educate his children in private schools. Derozio had two brothers and one sister and very little is known about them. Derozio left school at the age of 14 as was the custom prevailing among his community at that time and joined the company his father worked for, as a clerk in the year 1823.
From the time he left school until his early death in 1831 he wrote a remarkable number of poems and also authored the famous poetry book “The Fakeer of Jungheera” which was published in the year 1828. The major influences in his life were his school where the school founder David Drummond, a Scottish man gave emphasis to classics of European heritage in his schooling of the children. He was also influenced by the rationalist philosophy of David Hume, Jeremy Bentham and Thomas Paine. By the age of twenty Derozio was well versed in the classics and philosophy of western intellectuals.
He was a lecturer, a poet, a radical thinker and freedom fighter. In college, he taught literature and history. He was born of Anglo-Indian parents, his father being a half Indian and half Portuguese and his mother was a British. In spite of his foreign roots, Derozio had time and again identified himself as an Indian .
Date Of Issue:-15.12.2009.
