Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar set up school for girls at          .

The correct answer is Calcutta.

Key Points

•  Ishwarchandra Vidyasagar
  • Ishwarchandra Vidyasagar, a Bengali reformer, actively raised the issues related to women.
  • He was an active proponent of the education of girl children as he believed that lack of education was the real cause underlying all their problems.
  • With the help of an Englishman named Bethune, he set up many schools devoted especially to girl children.
  • He forcefully attacked child marriage and polygamy.
  • He was a strong advocate of widow remarriage.
  • It was due to his active mobilization of support that the Widows’ Remarriage Act was passed in 1856 legalizing all widow remarriages.
  • His graduation college, Sanskrit College, Calcutta gave him the title; Vidyasagar”, due to his excellent performance in Sanskrit studies and philosophy.
  • He arranged many such remarriages.
  • He set a personal example when his son Narayan also married a widow. 
  • Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar was a person of wide knowledge or learning from Bengal India and a key figure of the Bengal Renaissance.
  • He was an academic educator, philosopher, publisher, entrepreneur, philanthropist, writer, translator, printer, and reformer.
  • He simplified and modernized Bengali prose. Hence considered the "Father of Bengali prose". 
  • Also rationalized 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.
  • His graduation college, Sanskrit College, Calcutta gave him the title “Vidyasagar”, due to his excellent performance in Sanskrit studies and philosophy.