Discuss Justice Ranade’s Liberalism.
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A pioneer liberal. Mahadev Govind Ranade, a noted historian, social reformer, judge of the High Court of Bombay, co-founder of the Indian National Congress and one of India's original liberals. ... Ranade cut his social reform teeth at this publication.
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Ranade, born in 1842 in Nashik district, spent much of his childhood in the town of Kolhapur. He then moved to Bombay to enroll in the first batch of the B.A, L.L.B degree programme at the newly constituted Bombay University. He graduated top of his class in both the bachelors and masters programmes. Soon thereafter he became the editor of an Anglo-Marathi publication called Induprakash, founded in Pune by the social reformer Gopal Hari Deshmukh. Ranade cut his social reform teeth at this publication. Throughout his life Ranade remained committed to the cause of women’s education and empowerment, inter-caste marriage, and widow-remarriage and spoke against the caste system, dowry and polygamy. He established several schools for girls including the Hazurpaga Girl’s School, and the Female High School. The Hazurpaga school, only the second instance of Indians starting a girls school for Indians at the time, remains an institution to this day.
Ranade was an institution builder.
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