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KASHINATH TRIMBAK TELANG (1850-1893)

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Originally appearing in Volume V26, Page 509 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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TELANG (1850-1893)  , See also:Indian See also:judge and See also:oriental See also:scholar, was See also:born at Bombay on the 3oth of See also:August 1850 . By profession an See also:advocate of the high See also:court, he also took a vigorous See also:share in See also:literary, social, municipal and See also:political See also:work, as well as in the affairs of the university of Bombay, over which he presided as See also:vice-See also:chancellor from 1892 till his See also:death . At the See also:age of five See also:Telang was sent to the Amarchaud See also:Wadi See also:vernacular school, and in 1859 entered the high school in Bombay which bears the name of Mountstuart See also:Elphinstone . Here he came under the See also:influence of Narayan Mahadev Purmanand, a teacher of See also:fine See also:intellect and force of See also:character, afterwards one of Telang's most intimate See also:friends . From this school he passed to the Elphinstone See also:College, of which he became a See also:fellow, and after taking the degree of M.A. and LL.B., decided to follow the example of Bal Mangesh Wagle, the first Indian admitted by the See also:judges to practise on the See also:original See also:side of the high court, a position more like the status of a See also:barrister than a vakil or pleader . He passed the examination and was enrolled in 1872 . His learning and other gifts soon brought him an extensive practice . He had See also:complete command of the See also:English See also:language, and his intimacy with See also:Sanskrit enabled him to study and quote the See also:Hindu See also:law-books with an ease not readily attained by See also:European counsel . Telang, finding his career assured, declined an offer of See also:official employment . But in 1889 he accepted a seat on the high court See also:bench, where his judgments are recognized as authoritative, especially on the Hindu law . He was See also:syndic of the university from 1881, and vice-chancellor from 1892 till his death . In that See also:year also he was elected See also:president of the See also:local See also:branch of the Royal See also:Asiatic Society .

These two offices had never been held by a native of See also:

India before . The decoration of C.I.E. conferred on him in 1882 was a recognition of his services as a member of a mixed See also:commission appointed by the See also:government to See also:deal with the educational See also:system of the whole of India . He was nominated to the local legislative See also:council in 1884, but declined a similar position on the See also:viceroy's council . Along with P.M . Metha, he was the originator of the Bombay See also:Presidency Association . When a student he had won the Bhugwandas scholarship in Sanskrit, and in this language his later studies were profound . His See also:translation of the Bhagwadgita into English See also:prose and See also:verse is a See also:standard work; and he criticized See also:Professor See also:Weber's hypo-thesis that the See also:story of the Ramayana was influenced by the Homeric epics . While devoted to the sacred See also:classics of the See also:Hindus, Telang did not neglect his own vernacular, Mahratti literature being enriched by his translation of See also:Lessing's Nathan the See also:Wise, and an See also:essay on Social See also:Compromise . He died at Bombay on the 1st of See also:September 1893 .

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