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Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar

1820 - 1891

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Ishwar Chandra Bandyopadhyay (26 September 1820 – 29 July 1891), popularly known as Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar (lit. 'Vidyasagar, the Sea of Knowledge'), 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 type, which had remained unchanged since Charles Wilkins and Panchanan Karmakar had cut the first (wooden) Bengali type in 1780. He was renowned as one of the main proponents of the Bengal Renaissance. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar is the 1,685th most popular writer (down from 1,227th in 2019), the 252nd most popular biography from India (down from 157th in 2019) and the 31st most popular Indian Writer.

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Among writers, Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar ranks 1,685 out of 7,302. Before her are Akiyuki Nosaka, Vita Sackville-West, Varro Atacinus, Lina Kostenko, Ahmed Shawqi, and Gil Vicente. After her are Ryū Murakami, Jacopo Sannazaro, Anne Desclos, Michael Cunningham, Mahadevi Varma, and François Pierre La Varenne.

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Among people born in 1820, Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar ranks 27. Before her are John Tenniel, William Tecumseh Sherman, Yaqub Beg, Prince Frederick William of Hesse-Kassel, Édouard Roche, and Şevkefza Kadın. After her are Émile Augier, Prince Henry of the Netherlands, Jeanne Duval, Eugène Fromentin, Princess Alexandrine of Baden, and Afanasy Fet. Among people deceased in 1891, Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar ranks 39. Before her are William Tecumseh Sherman, Princess Cecilie of Baden, Johan Jongkind, Louis Lucien Bonaparte, Théodore de Banville, and Kalākaua. After her are Samuel Ajayi Crowther, Princess Vilhelmine Marie of Denmark, Fredrik Pacius, Pedro Antonio de Alarcón, Mihail Kogălniceanu, and Joseph E. Johnston.

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In India

Among people born in India, Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar ranks 252 out of 1,861. Before her are V. V. Giri (1894), Johnny Lever (1957), Nirmala Sitharaman (1959), Mangal Pandey (1827), Dadabhai Naoroji (1825), and Mithun Chakraborty (1950). After her are Mahadevi Varma (1907), Śāntarakṣita (725), Dignāga (480), Dhyan Chand (1905), Priyanka Gandhi (1972), and Pushyamitra Shunga (-300).

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Among WRITERS In India

Among writers born in India, Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar ranks 31. Before her are Bankim Chandra Chatterjee (1838), Bharata Muni (-1000), Vidyapati (1352), Deepak Chopra (1946), B. K. S. Iyengar (1918), and Namdev (1270). After her are Mahadevi Varma (1907), Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak (1942), Anna Leonowens (1831), Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay (1876), Andal (800), and Sankardev (1449).

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