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GOWRISHANKAR See also:VODEYSHANKAR (1805-1892)
, native See also:minister of the See also:state of See also:Bhaunagar in See also:Kathiawar, Bombay, was See also:born on the 2ISt of See also:August 1805, of a See also:family of See also:Nagar Brahmins
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He See also:rose from being a See also:revenue officer to be state minister in 1847
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His success in this capacity was such that on the See also:death of the reigning See also:chief, in 1870, he was appointed See also:joint See also:administrator in See also:concert with a See also:British See also:official
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The experiment was in every respect successful
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Under the See also:simple and economical forms used in native states, improvements suggested by British experience were introduced
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The See also:land revenue was based on a See also:cash See also:system, the fiscal and customs systems were remodelled and See also:tree planting was encouraged
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The See also:town of Bhaunagar received the See also:great boon of the Gowrishankar Waterworks, on which six lakhs of rupees were spent
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The Bhaunagar state also warmly pressed for railway communication with the See also:continent of See also:India, and thus began a See also:movement which has spread a network of railway lines over the See also:peninsula of Kathiawar
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The British See also:government re-warded these many services of Gowrishankar with the distinction of C.S.I. in 1877
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He helped to establish the Rajkumar See also:College at See also:Rajkot, for the See also:education of native princes, and also the Rajasthanik See also:Court, which, after settling innumerable disputes between the land-owning classes and the chiefs, has since been abolished
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In 1879 Gowrishankar resigned See also:office, and devoted himself to the study of the higher literature of that Vedanta See also:philosophy which through his whole See also:life had been to him a solace and a See also:guide
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In 1884 he wrote a See also:work called 'Svarupanusandhan, on the See also:union of the soul with Deity, which led to a See also:letter of warm congratulation from Max See also: In 1887 he put on the robe of the Sanyasi or ascetic, the See also:fourth See also:stage, according to the See also:Hindu Shastras, in the life of the twice-born See also:man, and in this manner passed the See also:remainder of his life, giving above ten See also:hours each See also:day to Vedantic studies and See also:holy contemplation . He died, revered by all classes, in See also:December 1892 . See Javerital U . Yajnik, Gowrishankar Udayashankar (Bombay, 1889) . |
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