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Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar

Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar

1820-1891 · South Asia · Modern

Indian scholar and reformer who advocated for widow remarriage and women's education in Bengal.

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South Asia
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Indian scholar and reformer who advocated for widow remarriage and women's education in Bengal.

Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar (1820-1891) endures among the great of South Asia. Indian scholar and reformer who advocated for widow remarriage and women's education in Bengal. Across the modern age, this life and its works passed into the shared inheritance of humankind — kept here so the memory is never lost. Honored among the Great Ones of every civilization. Africa is the cradle of humankind; in the deepest sense, these are everyone’s ancestors — and so this name is kept, from the cradle of humanity to all its children.

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