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what social ideas did Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar support.​

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Answered by malleshgl1980
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Pundit Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar was a legendary educationist and a social reformer who challenged Hindu orthodoxy, played a pivotal role in helping widows get remarried and fought for women's education as well as ending the shameful and stigmatised practice of child marriage, said Union Minister of State.

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Answered by Anonymous
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Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar CIE (26 September 1820 – 29 July 1891),[1] born Ishwar Chandra Bandyopadhyay, was an Indian educator and social reformer.[2] His efforts to simplify and modernise Bengali prose were significant. He also rationalised and simplified the Bengali alphabet and type, which had remained unchanged since Charles Wilkins and Panchanan Karmakar had cut the first (wooden) Bengali type in 1780. He is considered the "father of Bengali prose".[3]

Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar
Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar
Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar
Born
Ishwar Chandra Bandopadhyay
26 September 1820
Birsingha, Bengal Presidency, British India
(now in West Bengal, India)
Died
1891 29 July 1891 (aged 70)
Calcutta, Bengal Presidency, British India
(now Kolkata, West Bengal, India)
Occupation
Educator, social reformer and author
Language
Bengali
Nationality
Indian
Alma mater
Sanskrit College (1828-1839)
Literary movement
Bengal Renaissance
Notable works
Widow remarriage , introduction of punctuation mark in Bengali language
Spouse
Dinamayee Devi
Children
1
He was the most prominent campaigner for Hindu widow remarriage and petitioned Legislative council despite severe opposition and a counter petition against the proposal with nearly four times more signatures by Radhakanta Deb and the Dharma Sabha.[4][5] But Lord Dalhousie personally finalised the bill despite the opposition and it being considered a flagrant breach of Hindu customs as prevalent then and the Hindu Widows' Remarriage Act, 1856 was passed.[6][7]

He received the title "Vidyasagar" (in Sanskrit Vidya means knowledge and Sagar means ocean, i.e., Ocean of Knowledge) from Sanskrit College, Calcutta (from where he graduated), for his excellent performance in Sanskrit studies and philosophy. Noted Cambridge mathematician Anil Kumar Gain founded Vidyasagar University, named in his honour
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