Name this social reformer, who contributed a great deal to education of women, opening 35 schools for women throughout Bengal

Correct Answer is Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar.

The social reformer Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar, contributed a great deal to education of women, opening 35 schools for women throughout Bengal.

He was born on September 26, 1820, in the Bengal Presidency’s Midnapore district (now West Bengal).
Vidyasagar attended Sanskrit college from 1829 to 1841, where he studied Vedanta, Vyakaran, Literature, Rhetoric, Smriti, and Ethics.
Meanwhile, in 1839, he won the title of ‘Vidyasagar,’ which means Ocean of Knowledge, after competing in a Sanskrit knowledge test. Ishwar Chandra passed his law test in the same year.
In 1841, Vidyasagar became the Head Pandit of the Sanskrit Department at Fort William College.
Vidyasagar left Fort William College in 1846 to work as a ‘Assistant Secretary’ at the Sanskrit College.
In 1849, he helped John Elliot Bethune build the first permanent settlement in the United States.

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