A bust of Pandit Iswarchandra Vidyasagar was unveiled and an exhibition entitled Iswarchandra Vidyasagar as Printer and Publisher was inaugurated at Vidyasagar Hall of the Asiatic Society in Kolkata. Professor Sukanta Chaudhuri, Prof. Emeritus, Dept. of English, Jadavpur University, Professor Isha Mahammad, President of the Asiatic Society and Shri S.B. Chakrabarti, General Secretary, the Asiatic Society among others were also present on the occasion.
Pandit Iswarchandra also reconstructed the Bengali alphabet and reformed Bengali typography into an lphabet of 12 vowels and 40 consonants. He authored many books which greatly helped the Bengali education system.
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