Mahadev Govind Ranade

Mahadev Govind Ranade

Name : Mahadev Govind Ranade
Date of birth : 16 January 1842
Date of Death : 16 January 1901
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Justice Mahadev Govind Ranade (16 January 1842–16 January 1901) was an Indian judge, author, and reformer. At the age of six, Ranade was sent to a Marathi school in Kolhapur, and in 1851, he was transferred to an English school. Ranade completed his schooling at the Elphinstone Institute, Bombay. Ranade began studies at the Elphinstone College in Bombay at the age of fourteen. He belonged to Bombay University's first batches for both the B.A. (1862) and the LL.B. (Government Law School, 1866). He was appointed Presidency magistrate, fourth judge of the Bombay Small Causes Court in 1871, first-class sub-judge at Poona in 1873, judge of the Poona Small Causes Court in 1884, and finally to the Bombay High Court in 1893. From 1885 until he joined the High Court, he belonged to the Bombay legislative council.

Ranade founded the Poona Sarvajanik Sabha and later was one of the originators of the Indian National Congress. He has been portrayed as an early adversary of the politics of Bal Gangadhar Tilak and a mentor to Gopal Krishna Gokhale.

Ranade was a founder of the Social Conference movement, which he supported till his death, directing his social reform efforts against infant marriages, the shaving of widows' heads, the heavy cost of marriages and other social functions, and the caste restrictions on travelling abroad, and he strenuously advocated widow remarriage and female education.

Ranade died on January 16, 1901


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