Biography of vidyasagar
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Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar
Indian educator and social reformer
Ishwar Chandra Bandyopadhyay (26 September 1820 – 29 July 1891), popularly known as Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar (lit. 'Vidyasagar, the Sea of Knowledge'),[1] was an Indian educator and social reformer of the nineteenth century.[2] His efforts to simplify and modernise Bengali prose were significant. He also rationalised and simplified the Bengali alphabet and type, which had remained unchanged since Charles Wilkins and Panchanan Karmakar had cut the first (wooden) Bengali type in 1780.
He was the most prominent campaigner for Hindu widow remarriage, petitioning the Legislative Council despite severe opposition, including a counter petition (by Radhakanta Deb and the Dharma Sabha) which had nearly four times as many signatures.[3][4] Even though widow remarriage was considered a flagrant breach of Hindu customs and was staunchly opposed, Lord Dalhousie personally finalised the bill and the Hindu Widows' Remarriage Act, 1856 was passed. Against child marriage, efforts of Vidyasagar led to Age of Consent Act, 1891. In which the minimum age of consummation of marriage was 12 years.[5][6]
A weekly newspaper, Somprakash Patrika, was started o
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Birth of Social Reformer Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar - [September 26, 1820] This Day in History
26 September 1820
Great social reformer Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar was born.
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Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar
- Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar was born to Thakurdas Bandyopadhyay and Bhagavati Devi.
- As a child, he was a brilliant student and had a keen thirst for knowledge.
- He studied at the Sanskrit College at Calcutta and also cleared the law examination.
- He joined the Fort William College in 1841 as the Department Head for Sanskrit at the young age of 21. He was an erudite scholar of Sanskrit, Hindi, Bengali and English.
- Apart from being a teacher, he was also a translator, writer, philosopher, entrepreneur and philanthropist.
- He wrote ‘Borno Porichoy’ which is even today used to teach the Bengali alphabet to beginners of the language. He revoluti
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Isvar Chandra Vidyasagar, a tale of his life stand for work/Chapter 1
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- ↑ 2.02.1A Sanskrit phone up of boundless education.
- ↑A Indic title go in for scholarly education,
- ↑ A baptize of inordinate Sanskrit education.
- ↑ 5.05.1A epithet of boundless Sanskrit education.
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