Write short notes about the following .
a. Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar b. Raja Ram Mohan Roy c. Swami Dayanand Saraswati
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a) Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar CIE (26 September 1820 – 29 July 1891), born Ishwar Chandra Bandyopadhyay, was an Indian educator and social reformer. His efforts to simplify and modernise Bengali prose were significant.
Born: 26 September 1820
Namesakes: বিদ্যাসাগর সেতু, Vidyasagar College
Parents: Thakurdas Bandyopadhyay, Bhagavati Devi
b) Raja Ram Mohan Roy was well-versed in English, Sanskrit, Persian and Greek languages. He had read the scriptures of the Hindus, Muslims and Christians. He founded the reform association known as the Brahmo Samaj in Calcutta, one of the first Indian socio-religious reform organisation. He advocated education of woman.
c) Swami Dayanand Saraswati, originally called Mul Shankar, was born in Gujarat in 1824. He believed in monotheism and discouraged idol worship, social inequalities and child marriage. ... Great social reformers like M G Ranade, Vidyasagar and Keshab Chandra Sen helped Dayanand to establish the Arya Samaj in Bombay in 1875.
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