Vidyasagar The Great Indian Educationist and Philanthropist

Sometimes the vigorous application of the ferule and the touching shrieks of pain that followed would arouse the inmates of the house who instantly ran up to his rescue. [...] At the end of the first session he topped the list of succesful boys and took the prizes. [...] It must be said to the infinite credit of the Pundit that in the exercise of his patronage he showed no bias or favour but always secured the services of the best men. [...] The ground of disapproval must have been the religious nature of the theme ; otherwise it was as a contemporary biographer records a work of merit written in lucid easy graceful style:* Up to the close of the first quarter of thE i9th century Bengali literature existed only in a.debased form. [...] The path of duty was the way to glory." The elevation of Vidyasagar heralded the introduction of many salutary reforms.