M. G. RANADE (1842 - 1901)
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Mahadev Govind Ranade was born in Nashik in a middle-class Maharashtrian family on 18 January 1842.
At age 14, he went to study at the Elphinstone College, Bombay.
He secured a BA degree in 1862 and four years later, secured his LLB.
He started his career in 1871 as the Presidency Magistrate in the Bombay Small Causes Court.
He became a judge and in 1885, he was also a member of the Bombay Legislative Council.
He was also a keen social reformer and thinker. He advocated against child marriages, ill-treatment of widows, and promoted education for women and widow remarriage.
He was also a supporter of small-scale indigenous industry for the development of a stable economy.
He was one of the founding members of the Congress Party. He believed in complete constitutional means to achieve the various goals.
He was instrumental in establishing and promoting the Prarthana Samaj, the Poona Sarvajanik Sabha and the Vaktruttvottejak Sabha.
Along with Vaman Abaji Modak and Dr. R. G. Bhandarkar, Justice Ranade established the Maharashtra Girls Education Society and Huzurpaga, which is the oldest girls’ high school in Maharashtra in 1885.
His famous work is ‘Rise of the Maratha Power’.
In 1897, he was appointed as a member of a committee that was entrusted with tallying national and local expenditure along with necessary recommendations to stabilize the financial condition.
For his contribution to the committee, he was awarded the decoration of the ‘Companion of the Order of the Indian Empire’ (CIE) by the British government.
Justice Ranade passed away in 1901 aged about 59 years.
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