List of Famous people with last name Vidyasagar

Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar

First Name Ishwar
Born on September 26, 1820
Died on July 29, 1891 (aged 70)
Born in India

Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar CIE, born Ishwar Chandra Bandyopadhyay, was an Indian educator and social reformer. 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".

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