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Dictionary of Indian Biography (Buckland) |
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Dictionary of Indian Biography A to C
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 | Bhau Daji | | First Name(s) | (or Ramkrishna Vital ) | | Year of Birth | 1821 | | Year of Death | 1871 | | Entry | A Sarasvat Gond Brahman, and son of a small farmer of Mandra, in Goa : educated in the Native Education Society's School in Bombay, and became a teacher in the Elphinstone School : joined, 1845, the Grant Medical College as a student, and graduated in 1850 : as a practitioner, achieved great popularity and success : made original researches in the use of Indian drugs, with a special view to discovering a cure for leprosy in its earlier stages, and contributed some valuable papers to the A ntiquary : was a member of the chief educational and learned Societies in Bombay : a Fellow of the University, a Justice of the Peace, the first native Sheriff of Bombay in 1869 and 1871 : was also Dr. : died of paralysis in 1874 |
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A List of eminent persons who served in British India, together with short biographical notes of each
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