|
MAHADEO GOVIND 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-vernacular school in that See also: town, and joined the Elphinstone Institute in Bombay at the 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 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 Deccan Agriculturists' See also: Relief See also: Act from 1887, he came into close contact with the difficulties of the agrarian classes
.
In 1886 he was a member of the See also: finance committee appointed to report on the See also: expenditure, both imperial and provincial, with a view to retrenchment
.
This service won him the decoration of C.I.E
.
He became a member of the legislative 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 infant marriages, the shaving of widows, the heavy cost of marriages and other social functions, and the 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 sphere he founded the Poona Sarvajanik Sabha, through which he frequently helped the government with See also: sound advice
.
He was also one of the originators of the Indian See also: National Congress
.
In Bombay University, where he held the offices of syndic and dean in arts, he displayed much organizing power andSee 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 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 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 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)
.
|
|
|
[back] RAMUSIO |
[next] RANAVALO (RANAVALONA) III |
There are no comments yet for this article.
Do not copy, download, transfer, or otherwise replicate the site content in whole or in part.
Links to articles and home page are encouraged.