Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar

Ishwar Chandra Bandyopadhyay CIE, popularly known as Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar ';, 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.