Fort William College
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Fort William College was an academy of oriental studies and a centre of learning, founded on 18 August 1800 by Lord Wellesley, then Governor-General of British India, located within the Fort William c
Ex libris from the Fort William College Library
Ex-libris of the Fort William College Library
Catalogue of the books in the Library of the College of Fort William (Bibliothèque Numérique Aréale, BULAC)
Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar
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Ishwar Chandra Bandyopadhyay, popularly known as Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar, was an Indian educator and social reformer of the 19th century.
Fort William College
…the Fort William College. He assisted William Carey, Joshua Marshman and William Ward in the publication of the first Bengali translation of the Bible. Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar (1820–1891) was head pandit at Fort William College from 1841 to 1846. He concentrated on English and Hindi while serving in the college. After discharging…
Ishwarchandra Vidyasagar
Birthplace of Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar in Birsingha village
Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar on a 1970 stamp of India
Vidyasagar Setu, which connects Howrah and Kolkata, is named after him.