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  2. Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar - Wikipedia

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    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.

  3. Hindu Widows' Remarriage Act, 1856 - Wikipedia

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    Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar, a Brahmin and a Sanskrit scholar was the most prominent campaigner of widow remarriage.He petitioned the Legislative council, [11] but there was a counter petition against the proposal with nearly four times more signatures by Radhakanta Deb and the Dharma Sabha.

  4. Hindoo Patriot - Wikipedia

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    Girish Chandra Ghosh who had severed all ties with Hindoo Patriot three years ago, was moved by the plight of Harish Chandra Mukherjee's bereaved mother and helpless widow and took up the editorship again. After he left Hindoo Patriot again in November that year, the paper was bought over by Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar. Krishnadas Pal became its ...

  5. Michael Madhusudan Dutt - Wikipedia

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    Funds were not arriving from India according to his plans. He was only able to relocate to England in 1865 and study for the bar due to the generosity of Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar. For this, Dutt was to regard Vidyasagar as Dayar Sagar (meaning the ocean of kindness) for as long as he lived. He was admitted to the High Court in Calcutta on his ...

  6. Brahmo Samaj - Wikipedia

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    Among its first members were the "two giants of Hindu reformation and Bengal Renaissance", Akshay Kumar Datta, who in 1839 emerged from the life of an "anonymous squalor-beset individual", and Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar, the "indigenous modernizer". [18]

  7. Fort William College - Wikipedia

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    Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar (1820–1891) was head pandit at Fort William College from 1841 to 1846. He concentrated on English and Hindi while serving in the college. He concentrated on English and Hindi while serving in the college.

  8. Young Bengal - Wikipedia

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    Hara Chandra Ghosh (1808–1868), judge of the Small Causes Court Ramgopal Ghosh (1815–1868), businessman and public speaker Ramtanu Lahiri (1813–1898), teacher who publicly removed his sacred thread in 1851

  9. List of Brahmins - Wikipedia

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    Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar, Indian educator and social reformer considered the "father of Bengali prose". [428] Jaya Arunachalam, Indian social worker and the founder of Working Women's Forum. She received Padma Shri. [429] Jiddu Krishnamurti, [430] Indian philosopher, speaker and writer