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Dadoba Pandurang Tarkhadkar
Dadoba Pandurang (Tarkhadkar) (9 May 1814– 17 October 1882) (Pune, Maharashtra, British India) was a social reformer and linguistic from Bombay. He was born with the surname Tarkhadkar in a Maharashtrian Vaishya Vaishya (Sanskrit: वैश्य, ''vaiśya'') is one of the four Varna (Hinduism), varnas of the Hinduism, Hindu social order in India. Vaishyas are classed third in the order of caste hierarchy. The occupation of Vaishyas consists mainly ... family, but he never used it in later life. He wrote extensively on religion and social reform as an opponent of rituals and caste, while supporting widow-remarriage and education for women. He was two brothers of Atmaram Pandurang and Bhaskarrao Pandurang Tarkhadkar.He had three daughters named Durga,Manik and Annapurna. Annapurna was known as Anna, she was the first girl in Maharashtra who went abroad for study. Anna and young Rabindranath Tagore were very close, and the latter is supposed to have penned poems for her. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vaishya
Vaishya (Sanskrit: वैश्य, ''vaiśya'') is one of the four varnas of the Hindu social order in India. Vaishyas are classed third in the order of caste hierarchy. The occupation of Vaishyas consists mainly of agriculture, taking care of cattle, trade and other business pursuits. Traditional duties Hindu religious texts assigned Vaishyas to traditional roles in agriculture and cattle-rearing, but over time they came to be landowners, traders and money-lenders. Therefore making it their responsibility to provide sustenance for those of higher class, since they were of lower class. The Vaishyas, along with members of the Brahmin and Kshatriya varnas, claim ''dvija'' status ("twice born", a second or spiritual birth) after sacrament of initiation as in Hindu theology. Indian traders were widely credited for the spread of Indian culture to regions as far as southeast Asia. Historically, Vaishyas have been involved in roles other than their traditional pastoralism, trad ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Atmaram Pandurang
Atmaram Pandurang or Atmaram Pandurang Turkhadekar (or just Turkhad in English publications) (1823 – 26 April 1898) was an Indian physician and social reformer who founded the Prarthana Samaj and was one of the two Indian co-founders (the other being Sakharam Arjun) of the Bombay Natural History Society. A graduate of Grant Medical College, he was a brother of Dadoba Pandurang (9 May 1814 – 17 October 1882), a scholar of Sanskrit and Marathi. Atmaram Pandurang served briefly as sheriff of Bombay in 1879. Atmaram was born to Pandurang Yeshwant and Yashodabai. He went to the Elphinstone Institution (along with fellow student Dadabhai Naoroji) where he studied mathematics under Bal Gangadhar Shastri Jambhekar (1812-1846). He then joined the newly opened Grant Medical College and was in the first batch of students that included Dr Bhau Daji Lad and joined on 1 November 1845.With a diploma, he worked in Bhiwandi, running a smallpox vaccination campaign. He later helped frame Art ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Indian Social Reformers
Notable social reformers in India included *Subramanya Bharathiyaar *Swami Vivekananda * Ishwarchandra Vidyasagar *Debendranath Tagore *Rabindranath Tagore *Mahatma Gandhi *Dwarkanath Ganguly *Gopal Ganesh Agarkar *Baba Amte *Javaid Rahi *Pandurang Shastri Athavale *Basavanna *Vinoba Bhave *Gopal Hari Deshmukh *Virchand Gandhi *Narayana Guru *Kazi Nazrul Islam *Acharya Balshastri Jambhekar *Vinayak Damodar Savarkar *Dhondo Keshav Karve *T. K. Madhavan *Ramakrishna Paramhansa *Jyotiba Phule *Savitribai Phule *Pandita Ramabai *Periyar E. V. Ramasamy *Kuriakose Elias Chavara *Mahadev Govind Ranade *Kirity Roy *Raja Ram Mohan Roy *Begum Rokeya *BR Ambedkar *Dayananda Saraswati *Subhash Chandra Bose * Anurag Chauhan *Sahajanand Saraswati *Prabhat Ranjan Sarkar *Keshub Chandra Sen *Shahu of Kolhapur *Shishunala Sharif *Vitthal Ramji Shinde *Ramalinga Swamigal *Kandukuri Veeresalingam *Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar *Prabodhankar Thackeray Keshav Sitaram Thackeray (17 September 1885 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1814 Births
Events January * January 1 – War of the Sixth Coalition – The Royal Prussian Army led by Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher crosses the Rhine. * January 3 ** War of the Sixth Coalition – Siege of Cattaro: French garrison surrenders to the British after ten days of bombardment. ** War of the Sixth Coalition – Siege of Metz: Allied armies lay siege to the French city and fortress of Metz. * January 5 – Mexican War of Independence – Battle of Puruarán: Spanish Royalists defeat Mexican Rebels. * January 11 – War of the Sixth Coalition – Battle of Hoogstraten: Prussian forces under Friedrich Wilhelm Freiherr von Bülow defeat the French. * January 14 ** Treaty of Kiel: Frederick VI of Denmark cedes the Kingdom of Norway into personal union with Sweden, in exchange for west Pomerania. This marks the end of the real union of Denmark-Norway. ** War of the Sixth Coalition – Siege of Antwerp: Allied forces besiege Fre ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
