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 memoranda submitted by Vidyasagar were highly illuminating and almost all his suggestions were carried out. As regards one of them, the infliction of corporal punishment, he differed from Dr. (afterwards Raja) Rajendra Lala Mitra, Director of the institution, as also from other members of the committee appointed to investigate the matter. As he could not enforce his views, he resigned the visitorship in 1865.

His Akhyanamanjari, a Bengali reader for the use of young children, came out in 1864, followed four years later by the second and third parts.

It was mainly through the noble exertions of his friend Prof. Pyari Charan Sarkar of the Presidency College that the Bengal Temperance society was formed in Calcutta early in 1864. Vidyasagar along with many men of light and leading warmly supported the scheme. Many a brilliant youth of the land had contracted a love for drink. The inauguration of the Society was therefore hailed with rapture all over the