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Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar: The Man Who Widowed Bengal
In 1856, a soft-spoken Bengali scholar named Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar took on a thousand years of tradition. The Hindu Widows' Remarriage Act was a quiet revolution, but its backstory is anything but quiet. This episode follows Vidyasagar from his mud-floored village school to the halls of Fort William, where he pored over ancient Sanskrit texts to prove that widows had the right to remarry. We trace the fierce backlash—petitions signed by 30,000 orthodox Hindus, threats of violence, a campaign of slander—and how Vidyasagar, armed only with scholarship and stubborn decency, prevailed…
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