jan 1, 1870 - Poona Sarvajanik Sabha Justice Ranade 1870

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Poona Sarvajanik Sabha, (Marathi: पुणे सार्वजनिक सभा) (Also knows as Sarvajanik Sabha[1] transl. Everyone's organization), was a sociopolitical organisation in British India which started with the aim of working as a mediating body between the government and people of India and to popularise the peasants' legal rights


Justice Ranade (Mahadev Govind Ranade)

Guru of Gopal Krishna Gokhale
judge of the Bombay High Court, Maharashtra.

Worked for social reform in the areas of child marriage, widow
remarriage, and women’s rights.
 Professor of history at Elphinstone College, Bombay
 His publication ‘Rise of the Maratha Power’
 Member of the Prarthana Samaj

Established Indian National Social Conference 1885

establish the Vaktruttvottejak Sabha, the Poona Sarvajanik Sabha, Maharashtra Granthottejak Sabha, and the Prarthana Samaj, and edited a Bombay Anglo-Marathi daily paper, the Induprakash, founded on his ideology of social and religious reform.

title of Rao Bahadur


Ranade's wife died in early 30s after he founded 'Widow Marriage Association'(1861) and there was a people's pressure of him getting married to a widow.
But he married a girl who is barely eleven years old and 20 years younger to him

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