Topic outline

  • General

    • Compulsory course for all PG students of
      Vidyasagar University and the Affiliated Colleges

      (Non-credited Course - 25 Marks)

    • Syllabus File 374.1KB PDF document

  • Section-A

    • A) Early Life and Education:    ( 3 Classes)

      1. Birth and Lineage 

      2. A Journey from Iswar Chandra Bondopadhaya to Iswar Chandra Vidyasagar 

    • B)    Vidyasagar and Indian Education:  ( 5 Classes)

      1.     The then Indian education system

      2.     Vidyasagarian plan for reformation of Indian education- Vidyasagar as teacher,Vidyasagar as writer, planner and reformer of Indian education.


    • C)    Vidyasagar and Women Emancipation: (4 Classers)

      1.     Introduction of widow remarriage

      2.      Struggle to stop child marriage


  • Section-B

    • D)    Philanthropist Vidyasagar ( 2 Classes)

      1.      Vidyasagar’s philanthropy as narrated by others


    • E)     Vidyasagar : Traditions and modernity( 6 Classes)

      1.     Tradition

      2.     Modernity

      3.     Vidyasagara as Traditional moderniser


    • F)    Relevance of Vidyasagarian thoughts and values ( 4 Classes)

      1.     Vidyasagar and the then  Society of Bengal

      2.     Lesson for future generations


  • Reference

    • Reference Books:

      1)     Revisiting Modern Indian Thought : Themes and Perspective,(Ed. Suratha Kumar Malik and Ankit Tomar),  Routledge, New York and Londan, 2022 ( First South Asian Edition)

      2)     Vidyasagar o Bangali Samaj, Binoy Ghosh, Orient Blacksoan,2011

      3)     Amalesh Tripathi: Vidyasagar : the Traditional Moderniser , Cambridge University Press,2011

      4)     Brian A.Hatcher(Trans) : Vidyasagar : The Life and After Life of Eminent Indian, Routledge, New Delhi, 2014

      5)     Asok Sen : Iswar Chandra Vidyasagar and His Elusive Milestone, Riddhi-Indian, 28 Beniatola Lane,Cal-9

      6)     Binoy Ghosh: Vidyasagar O Bangali Samaj, Orient Blacksoan,2011