Mythologised on Netflix and in popular memory as ground zero for digital scams, Jamtara is undergoing a makeover today. Once home to 19th-century social reformer Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar, who ...

He promoted women's education, property rights, and gender equity — causes later championed by Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar, culminating in the landmark Widow Remarriage Act of 1856.

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.

Vidyabhushan was encouraged by the great Indian social reformer, Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar—who pressed the British authorities to pass the Hindu Widows’ Remarriage Act in 1856—to translate Greek ...

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 ...

Swami Vivekananda's Birth Anniversary is observed on 12 January and is celebrated as National Youth Day. Let us have a look at his teachings, History, philosophies, writings, Life. quotes, biography.

Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar, also known as Ishwar Chandra Bandhopadhyay, was a well-known writer, scholar, ... Since his family could not afford a gas lamp, Vidyasagar studied under the streetlights.

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 ...

Campaign for legacy school with Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar link in Hooghly’s Chinsurah Garbati High School, established in 1860, has witnessed a steady fall in admissions to Class V in the past few ...

In ‘Against High-Caste Polygamy’, Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar seeks reform within while endorsing the vision of respect for religious diversity.

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 ...