Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar

Recently, 200th birth anniversary of Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar was celebrated. He was born on 26th September 1820 in Birsingha, West Bengal.

About Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar

  • He was the 19th century intellectual.
  • He was perhaps the first Indian reformer to put forward the issues of women.
  • His Bengali primer, Borno Porichoy, remains, more than 130 years after his death in 1891, the introduction to the alphabet for nearly all Bengali children.
  • He was a polymath who reconstructed the modern Bengali alphabet and initiated pathbreaking reform in traditional upper caste Hindu society.
  • He studied Sanskrit grammar, literature, Vedanta philosophy, logic, astronomy, and Hindu law for more ....
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