Barely four months after the legislation of the Hindu Widows Remarriage Act, 1856, the first remarriage was solemnised in north Calcutta on December 7, 1856. Ishwara Chandra Vidyasagar, a social reformer and crusader, was the driving force behind the Act and virtually sponsored the first legalised remarriage between 10-year-old Kalimati, daughter of Palashdanga's Brahmnanda Mukherji, and the son of Vidyasagar's friend, Shrichandra Vidyaratna.

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