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Ishwar Chandra joined the Sanskrit College, Calcutta and studied there for twelve long years and graduated in 1841 qualifying in Sanskrit Grammar, Literature, Dialectics [Alankara Shastra], Vedanta, Smriti and Astronomy [1] As was the custom then Ishwar Chandra married at the age of fourteen. His wife was Dinamayee Devi.
Ishwar Chandra Gupta (1812–1859) Peary Chand Mitra (1814–1882) Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar (1820–1891) Lal Behari Dey (1824–1892) Michael Madhusudan Dutt (1824–1873) Rajnarayan Basu (1826–1892) Dinabandhu Mitra (1830–1873) Sanjib Chandra Chattopadhyay (1834–1889) Girish Chandra Sen (1835/1836-1910) Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay ...
Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar, scholar, social reformer and a key figure of the Bengal Renaissance, was born at Birsingha on 26 September 1820. [2] [3] Ghatal subdivision, shown in the map alongside, has alluvial soils. Around 85% of the total cultivated area is cropped more than once. [4]
In 1859, the venerable and beloved Secretary of the Tattwabodhini Sabha Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar resigned from the Brahmo Sabha in the face of Debendranath's vacillation. A meeting of the Tatwabodhini was promptly summoned with Debendranath resigning from the group he had founded.
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]
Rani Rashmoni on a 1994 stamp of India Shrine dedicated to Rani Rashmoni within the precincts of Dakshineswar Kali Temple. Rani Rashmoni has also been subject of a biographical film in Bengali language, titled Rani Rasmani (film) (1955), directed by Kaliprasad Ghosh, and wherein lead played by famous theatre personality and actress Molina Devi.
Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar, Indian educator and social reformer considered the "father of Bengali prose". [429] Jaya Arunachalam, Indian social worker and the founder of Working Women's Forum. She received Padma Shri. [430] Jiddu Krishnamurti, [431] Indian philosopher, speaker and writer
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.