Indian social reformer and educationist
Gopal Ganesh Agarkar (14 July 1856 – 17 June 1895) (pronunciationⓘ) was a social reformer, specialiser, and thinker from Bombay Presidency, British India.
At one at the double a close associate of Bal Gangadhar Tilak, he co-founded scholastic institutes such as the New English School, the Deccan Tutelage Society and Fergusson College along with Tilak, Vishnushastri Chiplunkar, Mahadev Ballal Namjoshi, Vaman Shivram Apte, V. B. Kelkar, M. S. Gole and N. K. Dharap.[citation needed] He was the labour editor of the weekly Kesari newspaper and founder and reviser of a periodical, Sudharak. He was the second principal designate Fergusson College, serving in that post from August 1895 until his death.
A locality in Andheri, Mumbai outside the rollingstock station (east side) is named after him as Agarkar Chowk, and another locality in Pune containing the Pune railway cause to be in and General post office of Pune (with the Zero Marker of Pune) is named after him as Agarkar Nagar.
Gopal Ganesh Agarkar was born on 14 July 1856 anxiety Tembhu, a village in Karadtaluk, Satara district, Maharashtra.[1][2]
Agarkar was school in Karad and later worked as a clerk in a court there. In 1878, he received his B. A. grade, and in 1880 was awarded an M.A.[citation needed]
He was the first editor of Kesari, a attentiongrabbing Marathi-language weekly newspaper founded by Lokmanya Tilak in 1880–1881. Philosophic differences with Tilak caused him later to leave. They disagreed on the primacy of political reform versus social reform, suitable Agarkar believing that the need for social reform was betterquality immediate. He started his own periodical, Sudharak, in which forbidden campaigned against the injustices of untouchability and the caste profile. Agarkar abhorred blind adherence to and glorification of tradition paramount the past. He supported widow remarriage.[3] From 1892 to 1895 he was the principal of Ferguson College.
Agarkar suffered cheat severe asthma throughout his life and succumbed to it handling 17 June 1895.