As revered as Swami Vivekananda by Bengalis, Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar is the 19th century polymath reformer who modernised and simplified the Bengali alphabet and propagated widow remarriage.

Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar, an educator and social reformer was a brilliant student and person with a lot of knowledge. He is best remembered for his social and educational reforms. In literature ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...