Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar
Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar is well known as Vidyasagar in Bengal. He was born at birsingh in Medinipur in year 1820. His father Thakur Das Bandopadhyay brought him to Kolkata and got him admitted to the Sanskrit college. Later became a teacher and finally principal of the same college. Next he was appointed inspector of schools. You was a great Sanskrit scholar. So he was called Vidyasagar - an ocean of learning. He wrote a translated many books in Bengali. He was the father of Bengali prose. He is Barnaparichaya is still the largest selling book in Bengal. Vidyasagar was also a great social reformer. He set up many school for girls. He stopped child marriage and started widow remarriage. Vidyasagar was a kind hearted man who always helped the poor. So you are known as an ocean of kindness. This great pandit passed away in 1891. Since this Bengal has given birth of a few social reformer.
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