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MAHADEO GOVIND RANADE (1842-1901)

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Originally appearing in Volume V22, Page 884 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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RANADE (1842-1901)  , See also:Indian lawyer, reformer and author, was See also:born on the 16th of See also:January 1842 at Niphad, in See also:Nasik See also:district, of a Chitpavan See also:Brahman See also:family . When his See also:father was See also:minister at See also:Kolhapur he attended the Anglo-See also:vernacular school in that See also:town, and joined the See also:Elphinstone See also:Institute in Bombay at the See also:age of fourteen . He was one of the first graduates of the Bombay University, taking the B.A. in 1862 and the LL.B. in 1866 . Having entered See also:government service he became See also:presidency See also:magistrate and then See also:fourth See also:judge of the small cause See also:court at Bombay in 1871, first-class sub-judge at See also:Poona in 1873, and judge of the Poona small cause court in 1884, after which, as See also:special judge under the See also:Deccan Agriculturists' See also:Relief See also:Act from 1887, he came into See also:close contact with the difficulties of the agrarian classes . In 1886 he was a member of the See also:finance See also:committee appointed to See also:report on the See also:expenditure, both imperial and provincial, with a view to See also:retrenchment . This service won him the decoration of C.I.E . He became a member of the legislative See also:council of Bombay in 1885, and occupied that position until raised to the high court in 1893 . Being an energetic social reformer, he directed his efforts against See also:infant marriages, the shaving of widows, the heavy cost of marriages and other social functions, and the See also:caste restrictions on travelling abroad . He strenuously advocated widow remarriage and See also:female See also:education . He was the founder of the social See also:conference See also:movement, which he supported till his See also:death . In the See also:political See also:sphere he founded the Poona Sarvajanik Sabha, through which he frequently helped the government with See also:sound See also:advice . He was also one of the originators of the Indian See also:National See also:Congress .

In Bombay University, where he held the offices of See also:

syndic and See also:dean in arts, he displayed much organizing See also:power and See also:great intimacy with the needs of the student class . Him-self a thorough Mahratti See also:scholar, he encouraged the See also:translation of See also:standard See also:English See also:works, and tried, with some success, to introduce vernacular See also:languages into the university curriculum . Though reared in the strictest tenets of See also:Hinduism, his deep religious feeling and trained See also:intellect craved something higher and broader than he could find in the traditional forms and orthodox teaching of his See also:race . The same spiritual want being See also:felt by many enlightened See also:Hindus, he joined with his See also:friends, Dr Atmaram Pandurang, Bal Mangesh Wagle and Vaman Abaji Modak, in See also:founding a new See also:sect in Bombay known as the " Parthana Samaj." This community resembles, in all essential points, the Brahma Samaj of See also:Bengal . Its principles of en-3ghtened See also:theism are based on the See also:ancient Vedas . Ile published In the See also:British Museum.books on Indian See also:economics and on Mahratta See also:history . He died on the 16th of January 1901 . He See also:left no See also:children, but his widow continued his See also:work of social and educational reform at Poona . See G . A . Mankar, See also:Justice M . G .

See also:

Ranade (Bombay, 1902) .

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