Ishwarchandra vidyasagar set up school for girls at ______.
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Correct answer: D
Explanation
The correct answer is Option 1. i.e.Calcutta
Ishwar Chandra was born on 26 September 1820 in Midnapore district of Bengal Presidency(now in West Bengal.
- Ishwar Chandra was a keen advocate of education for women. He rightly viewed education as the primary way for women to emancipate themselves from all the social oppression they had to face at the time.
- He exercised his power and lobbied hard for opening of school for girls and even outlined a suitable curriculum that not only did educate them but also enabled them to be self-reliant through vocations like needlework.
- He went door to door, asking family heads to allow their daughters to be enrolled in schools. Throughout Bengal, he opened 35 women’s schools and succeeded in enrolling 1300 students.
- To support women education Vidyasagar organized a fund called Nari Siksha Bhandar.
- He supported John Elliot Drinkwater Bethune to establish the first permanent girls’ school in India, the Bethune School, on May 7, 1849.
- Vidyasagar expressed his ideas through regular articles he wrote for periodicals and newspapers. He was associated with prestigious journalistic publications like ‘Tattwabodhini Patrika’, ‘Somprakash’, ‘Sarbashubhankari Patrika’ and ‘Hindu Patriot’.
- Vidyasagar established the Sanskrit Press with an aim to produce printed books at affordable prices so that common people could buy them.