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	Welcome to Ishwarchand Vidya Sagar Institute Of Technology !
ISHWARCHAND VIDYA SAGAR was a polymath and a pillar of the Bengal Renaissance. He was a philosopher from Bengal, Academician , Educator, Writer, Translator, Printer, Publisher and above all a philanthropist. He also rationalized and simplified Bengali alphabets. He started his teaching career in 1841 as a professor at Fort William College in Kolkata. In 1846 he joined Sanskrit College as assistant secretary and later set up a Sanskrit press and depository catering to printing and keeping of books. VIDYA SAGAR was one of the first persons in INDIA to realize that modern science is the key of India's future. He translate biographies of outstanding scientist like Copernicus, Newton & Herschel. He sought to inculcate a sprite of scientific inquiry among youngsters. Ishwarchand vigorously promoted the idea that, regardless of their caste, both man and women should be receiving the best of education. As a reformist he championed the uplift of the status of women in India, particularly in Bengal. Unlike other reformers who sought to setup alternative society or systems he sought however to transform orthodox Hindu society from within. He introduced the practice of widow re-marriage to mainstream Hindu society and look an initiative in pushing through the widow remarriage act XV of 1856. Rectitude and courage were the hallmark of Vidhyasagar's character and he was certainly ahead of his time. Rabindranath Tagore reverently wrote about him "One wonders how God in the process of introducing forty million Bengalis produced a man".