Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar was born as Ishwar Chandra Bandyopadhyay in Birsingha village, Hooghly district, Bengal on September 26, 1820. He was born into a Hindu Brahmin family to parents Thakurdas ...
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Remembering Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar, The Man Who Championed Widow Remarriage In India, On His Birth Anniversary
On this day in history, September 26, 1820, in a humble village in Bengal, a boy was born who would grow up to rewrite the fate of countless women in India. Ishwar Chandra Bandyopadhyay, better known ...
In April 1859, an advertisement in the Bengali journal Tattwabodhini announced that prints of Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar’s portrait had been released for sale. The insertion read: People across the ...
That Raja Ram Mohan Roy had objected to the setting up of Sanskrit College because he believed education should be Western, and that it was Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar, the father of the modern Bengali ...
Kolkata, Dec 22 (IANS) After almost 200 years since its inception in 1824, Kolkata's iconic Sanskrit Collegiate School, where iconic educator and social reformer Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar was a ...
The Raj Bhavan in Kolkata will soon have a chair named after the great educationist and social reformer Ishwar Chandra Chattopadhyay, popularly known as Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar, whose relentless ...
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Mamata Banerjee Pays Tribute To Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar, Slams BJP Over 'Attacks On Bengali Language'
On the anniversary of the death of Pandit Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar, a gigantic figure in the Bengal Renaissance, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee made a passionate tribute, reiterating his ...
Sanskrit scholar Madanmohan Tarkalankar, an important figure of Bengal Renaissance, passed away on this day. Tarkalankar had studied at Sanskrit College, where he was Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar’s ...
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