Q. Who is considered as the "Father of the Bengal Renaissance"?
Answer:
Raja Ram Mohan Roy
Notes: Historians have traced the beginnings of the Bengal Renaissance movement to the victory of the British East India Company at the 1757 Battle of Plassey, as well as the works of reformer Raja Rammohan Roy, considered the "Father of the Bengal Renaissance", born in 1772. Nitish Sengupta stated that the movement "can be said to have ended with Rabindranath Tagore," Asia's first Nobel laureate.