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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.
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.
During the British Raj, many reformers such as Ram Mohan Roy, Dayanand Saraswati, Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar and Jyotirao Phule fought for the betterment of women. Peary Charan Sarkar , a former student of Hindu College, Calcutta and a member of "Young Bengal", set up the first free school for girls in India in 1847 in Barasat, a suburb of ...
John Elliot Drinkwater Bethune (1801–1851) was an English educator, mathematician and polyglot known for promoting women's education in India. [1] He was the founder of Calcutta Female School (now known as Bethune College) in Calcutta, [2] which is considered the oldest women's college in Asia. [3]
The differences came to a head with the Coochbehar marriage. A meeting was called in Town Hall of Calutta on 15 May 1878 and the Sadharan Brahmo Samaj came into existence [30] with Anandamohan Bose as president, Shib Chandra Deb, Sivanath Sastri, Umesh Chandra Dutta, Gurucharan Mahalanobish serving as office bearers.
Reformers like Ram Mohan Roy and Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar championed the cause of women's rights in Bengal, heralding some of the most transformative changes at the turn of the century. Sati was abolished, widow remarriage was promoted, and child marriage was restrained in an attempt to end polygamy. [6]
[16] [17] The British and social reformers like Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar were instrumental in outlawing such customs by getting reforms passed through legislative processes. [18] Since the British feared opposition from orthodox community leaders, only the Indian Succession Act 1865, which was also one of the first laws to ensure women's ...
7.3 Women's rights. 8 Military. 9 Art. Toggle Art subsection. ... Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar, creator of Standard Bengali prose (sadhu bhasha) Scholars and polymaths