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 was not to survive her long, as his days were numbered. Two months before the mishap he had received a moving letter from his son craving forgiveness but had remained as cold and relentless as ever. After the death of his mother, Narayan Chandra addressed a second letter to him which also failed to mollify his heart. During the last few days of his life, however, Vidyasagar allowed him to put up in the same house and attend his sick-bed.

It was about this time that his son-in-law Suryya Kumar Adhikari, Principal of the Metropolitan Institution, was relieved of his office. The post was then offered to Dr. (afterwards Sir) Gurudas Banerji who respectfully declined on the ostensible ground of inability. Vidyasagar now visited the college personally, often in a palanquin when too weak to walk.

In April 1890 he refounded the high school at Birsingha and named it after his departed mother. His bowels complaint from which he had been sorely suffering for