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 Dictionary of Indian Biography G to I

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Date transcribed2011-04-00
Transcribed byPeter Bailey
CommentNote that notables of Indian, Afghan, etc. origin do not always follow the alphabetical name pattern established by Buckland in his original work.

Surnames  Goreh    
First Name(s)  Nehemiah Goreh    
Titles  Rev.    
Year of Birth  1825    
Year of Death  1895    
Entry  His original name was Nilkanta Sastri : born near Jhansi, Feb. 8, 1825 : of a Mahratta Brahman family of hereditary Prime Ministers of the Peshwas : educated at Benares in Sanskrit lore : baptized March 14, 1848, at Jaunpur: accompanied Dulip Singh {q.v.) to England as his Sanskrit tutor : attended theological lectures at the Islington College of the Church Missionary Society : returned to India, 1855 : entered Bishop's College, Calcutta : ordained, 1870 : wrote on religious subjects : wrote also the Rational Refutation of the Hindu Philosophical Systems : joined the mission of the Scottish Episcopal Church to Chanda, in the Central Provinces : and the Cowley Fathers at Bombay, Poona and Indore : died Oct. 29, 1895 : helped to revise the Hindi and Mahratti Prayer Book : had influence with the Brahmans, Muhammadans and Parsis, and with Pandita Ramabai.     
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