​BHIDE, GOPALRAO HARI (1843–1896)

A native of Mahapada in the Presidency of Bombay: son of a learned Brahman of the old type, who, too poor to maintain his family, migrated to Kalyan: educated at Poona: entered the railway service as a signaller, employed in the Berars and afterwards at Nagpur: became a clerk in the Magistrate's office and read law: in 1869 became a Pleader and obtained a lucrative practice: devoted himself to social reforms, particularly female education, the remarriage of widows, and improvement of modes of agriculture: through his advice the first proprietary cotton mill was established at Nagpur: died Jan. 4, 1896.