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BHAU DAJI (RAMKRISHNA VITHAL) (1822-1874) , See also:

Hindu physician of Bombay, See also:Sanskrit See also:scholar and See also:antiquary, was See also:born in 1822 at the See also:village of Manjare, in the native See also:state of See also:Sawantwari, of humble parents dealing in See also:clay dolls. Dr Bhau's career is a striking instance of See also:great results arising from small accidents. An Englishman noticing his cleverness at See also:chess induced his See also:father to give the boy an See also:English See also:education. Accordingly Bhau was brought to Bombay and was educated at the See also:Elphinstone Institution. He relieved his father of the cost of his education by winning many prizes and scholarships, and on his father's See also:death two years later he cheerfully undertook the See also:burden of supporting his See also:mother and a See also:brother (Narayen), who also in after-See also:life became a distinguished physician and surgeon. About this See also:time he gained a See also:prize for an See also:essay on See also:infanticide, and was appointed a teacher in the Elphinstone Institution. He began to devote his time to the study of See also:Indian antiquities, deciphering See also:inscriptions and ascertaining the See also:dates and See also:history of See also:ancient Sanskrit authors. He then studied at the See also:Grant Medical See also:College, and was one of the first batch who graduated there in 185o. In 1851 he set up as a medical practitioner in Bombay, where his success was so great that he soon made a See also:fortune. He studied the Sanskrit literature of See also:medicine, and also tested the value of drugs to which the ancient See also:Hindus ascribed marvellous See also:powers, among other pathological subjects of See also:historical See also:interest investigating that of leprosy. Being an ardent See also:promoter of education, he was appointed a member of the See also:board of education, and was one of the See also:original See also:fellows of the university of Bombay. As the first native See also:president of the students' See also:literary and scientific society, and the See also:champion of the cause of See also:female education, a girls' school was founded in his name, for which an endowment was provided by his See also:friends and admirers.

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political progress of See also:India he took a great and active interest, and the Bombay Association and the Bombay See also:branch of the See also:East Indian Association owe their existence to his ability and exertions. Ile was twice chosen See also:sheriff of Bombay, in 1869 and 1871. Various scientific See also:societies in See also:England, See also:France, See also:Germany and See also:America conferred on him their membership. He contributed numerous papers to the See also:journal of the Bombay branch of the Royal See also:Asiatic Society. He found time to make a large collection of rare ancient Sanskrit See also:manuscripts at great cost and trouble. He died in May 1874. His brother, Dr Narayen Daji (who helped him to set up the charitable dispensary in Bombay), did not See also:long survive him. Dr Bhau was a See also:man of the most See also:simple and amiable See also:character and See also:manners; his kindness and sympathy towards the poor and distressed were unbounded, and endeared his memory among the Hindus of Bombay. (N. B.

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