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Kolkata's first widow remarriage location awaits heritage tag
short by / on Tuesday, 13 May, 2025
Thanks to the Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar's reformist zeal, British govt had just passed Widow Remarriage Act in July, 1856. Not even six months later, on December 7, a young widow was married again from what was then 12 Sukesh Street and later renamed 48 Kailash Bose Street. The Kolkata Municipal Corporation is trying to list it as a heritage building.
read more at The CSR Journal