Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar | Today Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar Birthday

Today is the 199th birth anniversary of Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar ji, on this day, on 26 September 1820, a place called Bir Singh was located in Bengal. He was one of the pillars of the Renaissance of Bengal. His father's name was Thakurdas Bandyopadhyay and his mother's name was Bhagwati Devi.

Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar was a member of an institution called Brahma Samaj. Along with the education of women, he also worked for widow marriage and improving the condition of widows. For this, Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar had to face many problems, in the end, the widow marriage got legal approval. To propagate reformist ideologies among the public, Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar took out letters in English and Bangla.

Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar said that no person grows up only by wearing good clothes, living in a good house and eating well, but by doing good things. Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar was a great icon of the 19th century. He died in Samvat 1948 at the age of 62. He pledged to remove illiteracy and orthodoxy spread in his time. Facing many difficulties, he made improvements in the educational, social and women's condition.

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Name :  Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar

Date of Birth :  26 September 1820, Birsingh, Bengal

Died :  29 July 1891, Calcutta

Education :  Sanskrit College (1829–1839)

Work area :  writer, philosopher, scholar, teacher, translator, publisher, social reformer

Language :  bengali