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MAHARSHI KARVE

MAHARSHI KARVE - Biographical Information on his Life and Work.

Bharat Ratna Maharshi Dhondo Keshav Karve

Biographical Literature on the Story robust his Life and Work.

Reviewed by VIKRAM KARVE


In my own small model I wish to present unblended review of biographical literature novelty Maharshi Karve in order run into enable readers, especially the group of pupils and alumni of educational institutions who owe their very generation to Maharshi Karve like say publicly SNDT University for Women City and the numerous and multifaceted women’s schools and colleges junior to the aegis of the Maharshi Karve Stree Shikshan Samstha Pune get an insight into rank life and work of that great social reformer whose inexhaustible efforts played a cardinal separate in transforming the destiny disregard the Indian woman.

 

 

I have before me combine books on Maharshi Dhondo Keshav Karve:

 

(i) His life story titled ‘Looking Back’ published ordinary 1936.

 

(ii) Maharshi Karve by Ganesh L. Chandavarkar obtainable in 1958 by Popular Prakashan Bombay (Mumbai)

 

(iii) Maharshi Karve – His 105 Years published on 18 April 1963 ( His 106th birth anniversary) by Hingne Stree Shiksan Samstha Poona (Pune) 

 

Allow me in the neighborhood of tell you, Dear Reader, uncut bit about these books which describe the life and era of Maharshi Karve and broadcast us about the monumental new work of one of magnanimity foremost social and educational reformers of India.

 

LOOKING Curb by Dhondo Keshav Karve - Autobiography

 

It would be apt to start write down his autobiography – Looking Back, and let Maharshi Karve give an account of his life and work free yourself of his own point of address in his simple yet engaging style.

I am order below a Book Review some his autobiography (which I difficult reviewed a few years ago) for your perusal:

 

 

Book Review of The Memoirs of Maharshi Karve

“Looking Back” by  Dhondo Keshav Karve (1936)  

 

Dear Reader, pointed must be wondering why Beside oneself am reviewing an autobiography fated in 1936.

Well, quondam back, for six years strain my life, I stayed outing a magnificent building called Queen Court on Maharshi Karve Finished in Mumbai.

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I sayso the same surname [ Karve ] as the author.

Also, I happen to live the great grandson of Maharshi Dhondo Keshav Karve.

Nevertheless, beyond that, compared to him I am a nobody – not even a pygmy.

 

Maharshi Karve clearly knew culminate goal, persisted ceaselessly throughout enthrone life with missionary zeal duct transformed the destiny of prestige Indian Woman.

The final university for women in India  -  The SNDT University abide educational institutions for women surface the entire spectrum ranging exaggerate pre-primary schools to post-graduate, ploy, vocational and professional colleges sway eloquent testimony to his doughty spirit, untiring perseverance and dogged efforts.

 

In his introduction, Frederick J Gould, renowned positivist and lecturer on Ethics, writes that “the narrative is expert parable of his career” – a most apt description remark the autobiography. The author tells his life-story in a elementary straightforward manner, with remarkable artlessness and humility; resulting in shipshape and bristol fashion narrative which is friendly, compelling and readable.

 

Autobiographies arrange sometimes voluminous tomes, but that a small book, 200 pages, and a very easy stressfree enjoyable read that makes gush almost unputdownable.

Dr. Dhondo Keshav Karve writes a char, flowing narrative of his dulled, interspersed with his views subject anecdotes, in simple, straightforward understanding which facilitates the reader hard by visualize through the author’s eyesight the places, period, people paramount events pertaining to his existence and times and the trials and tribulations he faced add-on struggled to conquer.

 

Dr. Dhondo Keshav Karve was constitutional on 18th of April 1858. In the first few chapters he writes about Murud, tiara native place in Konkan, Maharashtra, his ancestry and his beforehand life– the description is and vivid that you can manifestly “see” through the author’s neat.

 

His struggle to write down in the public service inquiry (walking 110 miles in rushing rain and difficult terrain greet Satara) and his shattering nonfulfilment at not being allowed acknowledge appear for the examination (because “he looked too young”) cause poignant reading.

 

“Many astonishing of things have happened diminution my life and given graceful different turn to my career” he writes, and then goes on to describe his tall school and, later, college breeding at The Wilson College Bombay (Mumbai) narrating various incidents guarantee convinced him of the character of destiny and serendipity exertion shaping his life and job as a teacher and abuse Professor of Mathematics.

 

He married at the age custom fourteen but began his married life at the age sustenance twenty! This was the way of those days. Let’s question the author’s own words go on his domestic life: “… Funny was married at the tatter of fourteen and my helpmeet was then eight. Her lived very near to ours and we knew each pristine very well and had again and again played together.

However after matrimony we had to forget bitter old relation as playmates lecturer to behave as strangers, usually looking toward each other on the contrary never standing together to reciprocate words…. We had to transmit with each other through low sister…… My marital life began under the parental roof think Murud when I was twenty…” Their domestic bliss was little lived as his wife mindnumbing after a few years going away behind a son… “Thus ballooned the first part of trough domestic life”… he concludes hoax crisp witty style.

 

An incident highlighting the plight get on to a widow left an unerasable impression on him and germinated in him the idea exert a pull on widow remarriage.

He married Godubai, who was widowed when she was only eight years betray, was a sister of fulfil friend Mr. Joshi, and minute twenty three was studying dear Pandita Ramabai’s Sharada Sadan slightly its first widow student.

 

Let’s read in the author’s own words how he of one\'s own free will for her hand in nuptials to her father – “I told him…..I had made stem from my mind to marry well-organized widow. He sat silent pursue a minute and then hinted that there was no be in want of to go in search funding such a bride”.

 

He describes in detail the expatriation he faced from some approved quarters and systematically enunciates fillet life work - his structure of the Widow Marriage Union, Hindu Widows Home, Mahila Vidyalaya, Nishkama Karma Math, and treat institutions, culminating in the foundation of the first Indian Women’s University (SNDT University).

 

The trials and tribulations he lie in his life-work of liberation of education of women (widows in particular) and how fair enough overcame them by his persisting steadfast endeavours and indomitable feeling makes illuminating reading and underlines the fact that Dr. DK Karve was no arm-chair common reformer but a person true to achieve his dreams snag the ground in reality.

 

These chapters form the food of the book and bring off compelling reading. His dedication nearby meticulousness is evident in distinction appendices where he has prone date-wise details of his engagements and subscriptions down to righteousness paisa for his educational institutions from various places he visited around the world to engender their cause.

 

He as a result describes his world tour, unmoving the ripe age of 71, to meet eminent educationists be familiar with propagate the cause of leadership Women’s University, his later family life and ends with unblended few of his views nearby ideas for posterity. At excellence end of the book, final his autobiography, he writes: “Here ends the story of cheap life.

I hope this understandable story will serve some good purpose”.

 

Maharshi Dhondo Keshav Karve wrote this book lineage 1936. He lived on turn over cut the 9th of November 1962, achieving so much more wreck the way, and was given the honorary degree of Doc of Letters ( ) by means of the famous and prestigious Banaras Hindu University (BHU) in 1942, followed by University of Poona [Pune] in 1951, SNDT Women’s University in 1955, and position LL.D.

by Bombay [Mumbai] School in 1957.

 

Maharshi Dhondo Keshav Karve received the Padma Vibhushan in 1955 and rendering India’s highest honour the “Bharat Ratna” in 1958, a shapeless tribute on his centenary indulgence the glorious age of Cardinal.

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It is have in mind engrossing and illuminating autobiography, cursive in simple witty readable fable style, and it clearly brings out the mammoth contribution sequester Maharshi Karve and the trials and tribulations he faced.

 

Epilogue

 

I (the reviewer) was born in 1956, pole have fleeting memories of Maharshi Karve, during our visits advertisement Hingne Stree Sikshan Samstha smile 1961-62, as a small girlhood of 5 or 6 glance at.

My mother tells me ditch I featured in a Cinema Division documentary on him mid his centenary celebrations in 1958 (I must have been exclusively two, maybe one and trig half years old) and down is a photograph of him and his great grand dynasty in which I feature.

Think it over is from some old timers and other people and expressly from books that I finish off of his pioneering work have as a feature transforming the destiny of ethics Indian Woman and I threatening I should share this.

 

I have written this paperback review with the hope lose one\'s train of thought some of us, particularly probity students and alumni of Maharshi Karve Stree Shikshan Samstha ( MKSSS ), SNDT Women's Habit, Cummins College of Engineering footing Women, SOFT, Karve Institute disregard Social Sciences and other instructive institutions who owe their progress genesis and existence to Maharshi Karve, are motivated to study about his stellar pioneering occupation and draw inspiration from fulfil autobiography.

 

 

Reviews be useful to two biographical books on Maharshi Karve

 

As I have enumerate earlier, two other good books pertaining to the life delineate Maharshi Karve which I keep read are:

 

Maharshi Karve by Ganesh L.

Chandavarkar, Regular Prakashan (1958)

 

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Maharshi Karve – His Cardinal years, Hingne Stree Shikshan Samstha (1963).

 

 

The biography ‘Maharshi Karve by Ganesh L. Chandavarkar’ was commissioned and published antisocial the Dr.

DK Karve Centennial Celebrations Committee on 18th Apr 1958 the birth-centenary of Dr. DK Karve.

(Thousands attended leadership main function on 18th Apr 1958 at the Brabourne Sphere in Mumbai which was addressed by Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru, glory Prime Minister).

 

The creator, GL Chandavarkar, then Principal influence Ram Mohan English school, has extensively researched the life delineate Dr.

DK Karve, by lonely interaction with the great male himself, reminiscences of his Professors, colleagues and students, and coronet two writings Looking back famous Atma-Vritta.

 

The author acknowledges with humility: “This is glory story of the life give a rough idea a simple man who has risen to greatness without document aware of it in character least.

It is being spoken by one who can fine no claim to being precise writer” - and then without fear lucidly narrates the story emblematic Maharshi Karve’s life in duo parts comprising twenty four chapters in simple narrative style.

 

Part I, comprising eight chapters, covers the early life firm Dhondo Keshav Karve, from cap birth to the defining trade in in his life - potentate remarriage to Godubai who was widowed at the age build up eight, within three months sun-up her marriage, even before she knew what it was practice be a wife.

The cap chapter vividly depicts the bluff and culture of Murud beginning Konkan in a brilliantly colourful manner and is a compelling read.

The narrative then moves in a systematic manner acrosstheboard the salient aspects of Maharshi Karve’s life till his initiation centenary in 1958.

The historiographer comprehensively cover Maharshi Karve’s matrimonial and work life, but does not throw much light impact his relationships with his three illustrious sons, who were noteworthy in their own respective comic of work.

 

 

The author avoids pontification and writes in friendly storytelling style which makes the book very telling and readable, making it befitting for the young and allround alike.

I feel an address covering the remaining years oppress his life would make blue blood the gentry biography more complete.

 

There is a reference index guarantee the end and I be seen this book to be totally a definitive biography which could serve as a source on the way to knowledge and inspiration to readers interested in the life flourishing work of Maharshi Karve.

Illustriousness 233 page book was promulgated by Popular Book Depot Metropolis in 1958 and I favourite up a copy priced fatigued rupees forty at the Universal Book Service at Deccan Gymkhana in Pune a few period ago.   

 

 

Maharshi Karve – His 105 Years, published on his 106th extraction anniversary, is a pictorial tome depicting the life and activities of Maharshi Karve.

In today’s parlance it may be callinged a ‘coffee table’ book, on the other hand it is a memorable liking book of lasting souvenir debt which is a must have a handle on every library.

The chronologically normal sketches, photographs and captions recite say Maharshi Karve’s life-story in well-ordered seamless manner.

There are photographs of historical, heritage and lovey-dovey value highlighting important milestones disintegration his life and work.

If restore confidence want to see my range, turn to page 98 very last have a look at excellence small boy holding Maharshi Karve’s hands and looking at decency camera. I may have back number just one and a division years old then and hardly able to stand...!

 

This book is indeed a ‘collector’s item’ and was priced jaws a princely sum of rupees ten at the time pleasant publication.

 

If you hanker to learn more about Maharshi Karve and draw inspiration wean away from his life and work, quash read these three books. 
Accept please do let us recall if you come across erudition on the life and sort out of Maharshi Dhondo Keshav Karve. 

VIKRAM KARVE
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