"I am not at all a slave of social custom. Whatever I think good for myself or the society I shall do and never retreat of fear of criticism of the people or my relatives."
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Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar
Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar CIE (; 26 September 1820 – 29 July 1891) born Ishwar Chandra Bandyopadhyay, 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.
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