UPSC Prelims 2021·GS1·history·modern history

Who among the following was associated as Secretary with Hindu Female School which later came to be known as Bethune Female School?

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  1. AAnnie Besant
  2. BDebendranath Tagore
  3. CIshwar Chandra VidyasagarCorrect
  4. DSarojini Naidu

Explanation

Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar was a towering figure in the 19th-century Bengal Renaissance and a passionate advocate for social reform and women's education. He was deeply associated with the Hindu Female School, which was founded by John Elliot Drinkwater Bethune in Calcutta in 1849. After Bethune's death in 1851, Vidyasagar took over the responsibility of running the school as its Secretary and funded it from his own pocket for some time. Under his dedicated leadership, the school continued to thrive and was eventually renamed Bethune Female School (now Bethune College), cementing his crucial role in its development and the broader cause of female education in India.
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