Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar, Indian philosopher, painter, and academic (died 1891)

Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar

Indian educator and social reformer

Ishwar Chandra Bandyopadhyay, popularly known as Ishwar Chandra 'Vidyasagar', was an Indian educator and social reformer of the nineteenth century. His efforts to simplify and modernise Bengali prose were significant. He also rationalised and simplified the Bengali alphabet and…