Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar and various reforms
Educational Reform: Iswar Chandra firmly believed that the regeneration of India was possible through modern education. That is why Iswar Chandra vidyasagar took up an educational reforms before movement for social reforms. In matters of education Iswar Chandra vidyasagar aimed at extending the benefits of learning to common people. He reconstructed the Bengali alphabet and reformed Bengali typography into an alphabet of twelve vowels and forty consonants. He contributed significantly to Bengali and Sanskrit literature .Vidyasagar's "Barna Porichoy" is still considered a classic. His efforts to simplify and modernize Bengali prose were significant. He also rationalized 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. Further, in order to liberate the minds of y...