The 1800s in India were marked by staunch commitment towards Hindu customs like Sati. They were practices being carried down from generations for long that they had almost become meaningless.

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A pundit in Sanskrit and Bengali, in 1850 Vidyasagar (ocean of knowledge) wrote the primer, Barnaparichay, which introduced generations of Bengalis to their mother tongue. Ishwar Chandra ...

New Delhi [India], May 16 (ANI): A prominent figure in West Bengal, Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar has come under the spotlight after a statue of him was vandalised on Tuesday night during violence at ...

Published by Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar in 1871, Against High-Caste Polygamy makes the case that the customary practice of hypergamous marriages – “marrying up”, or to a man of higher caste ...

Addressing an election rally in Mau, Modi said,"The statue of Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar was broken by TMC goondas during the road show of BJP President Amit Shah. Those involved in this act should ...

Bengal became the crucible of this transformation, led by men of exceptional intellect and character - figures like Raja Ram Mohan Roy, Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar, Keshub Chandra Sen, and ...

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 ...

These installations aim to establish Pandit Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar's birthplace in Ghatal, West Midnapore, as a prominent cultural tourism and pilgrimage destination in the state. The initial ...

but today hardly anyone seems to be aware of the connection of this place to Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar. Only a few hundred metres from the Vidyasagar railway station is the place where he lived ...