Gopal Ganesh Agarkar
Gopal Ganesh Agarkar was a Chitpavan Brahmin social reformer, educationist, thinker from Maharashtra, India during the British rule. A close associate of Lokamanya Bal Gangadhar Tilak, he was a cofounder of the renowned educational institutes like the New English School, the Deccan Education Society and Fergusson College along with Lokamanya Tilak, Vishnushastri Chiplunkar, Mahadev Ballal Namjoshi, V. S. Apte, V. B. Kelkar, M. S. Gole and N. K. Dharap. He was the first editor of the weekly Kesari and founder and editor of periodical Sudhaarak. He was the second Principal of Fergusson College and served that post from August1892 till his last breath.
Gopal Ganesh Agarkar was born in a Koknastha Brahman family onJuly 1856 in Tembhu, a Thembu village in, Karad Taluka Satara district of Maharashtra.He was friend of Nilkanth Tidke Agarkar had his primary education from Karad . After doing some clerical work in a court at Karad, he went to Ratnagiri but could not get education there. In 1878, he got his B. A. degree followed by later M. A. in 1880.
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