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A portrait of Dr. Dhondo Keshav Karve, white-bearded, on a 15 naye paise stamp.
Maharshi Karve
India Post issued this stamp on 18 April 1958, the hundredth birthday of Dr. Dhondo Keshav Karve, the pioneer of women’s education and of the remarriage of widows. Born at Murud, in Ratnagiri district, he taught mathematics at Fergusson College, Poona, and in 1893 himself married a widow, braving the anger of society. He founded a home for widows at Hingne, near Poona, in 1896, schools for girls, and in 1916 the first women’s university in India, now the SNDT Women’s University. He was awarded the Bharat Ratna in his hundredth year, 1958, and died in 1962, at the age of 104.
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