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| Date transcribed | 2011-01-01 | | Transcribed by | Peter Bailey | | Comment | Note that notables of Indian, Afghan, etc. origin do not always follow the alphabetical name pattern established by Buckland in his original work. |
| | Surname | Bhandarkar | | | First Name(s) | Ramkrishna Gopal | | | Year of Birth | 1837 | | | Entry | Orientalist and social reformer : born July 6, 1837 : educated at Ratnagiri and Elphinstone College, Bombay : M.A., 1866 : Dakhshina Fellow there 1859, and later in the Dekkan College, Poona, till 1864 : in the Bombay Education Department, 1864-93 : Head-master of Hyderabad (Sind) and Ratnagiri High Schools, 1864-9 : acting Professor of Sanskrit and Oriental Languages in Elphinstone College, Assistant Professor many years, till 1881 : Professor of Sanskrit at Dekkan College,. Poona, 1882-93 : Fellow of Bombay University from 1866 ; Syndic, 1873-81 ; Vice-Chancellor, 1893-5 : Hon. LL.D., 1904 : Member of the Governor-General's Legislative Council, 1903-4, when the Universities Act was passed : Member of Bombay Legislative Council, 1904-5 : Fellow of Calcutta University, 1887 :. Member of learned Societies, e.g. R.A.S. London, 1874 ; R.A.S. Bombay, 1865 j German Oriental Society, 1887 ; American Oriental Society, 1887 ; Asiatic Society of Italy, 1887 ; of Imperial Academy of Science, St. Petersburg, 1888 : Foreign member of the French Institute, 1895 : also of the International Congress of Orientalists, London, 1874 ; and of Vienna, 1886, which he attended : CLE., 1887 : retired from service, 1893 : Hon. Phil. Dr. Gottingen University : has contributed largely to the Journals and Transactions of learned Societies, especially in Bombay, on philological and antiquarian subjects : also to the Indian Antiquary : first lecturer on the Wilson Lectureship, Bombay University : reported on his searches for Sanskrit MSS. in the Bombay Presidency : edited the text of the Sanskrit Malati-Madhava :and has written Sanskrit educational works : is a leader of the enlightened religious movement of the Prathna Samaj in W. India : as a social reformer has practically supported the re-marriage of widows, and in politics is a moderate progressive. |
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