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{{Short description|Indian Socialsocial Reformer,reformer and Educationisteducationist}}
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| native_name_lang = गोपाळ गणेश आगरकर

| birth_place = [[Satara district|Tembhu]], [[Bombay Presidency]], [[Company Raj]]<br/>(in-present [[Satara District]], [[Maharashtra|Maharashtra,British India]])

| death_place = [[Pune]], [[Bombay Presidency]], [[British India]]<br/>(in-present [[MaharashtraRaj|Maharashtra,British India]])

| educationknown_for = B.A.Founder inof Historythe and[[Deccan M.A. in HistoryEducation Society]]

'''''Gopal Ganesh Agarkar''''' (14 July 1856&nbsp;– 17 June 1895) was({{Pronunciation|Gopal anGanesh Agarkar.wav|help=no}}) was Indiana [[social reformer]], educationist, and thinker from [[MaharashtraBombay Presidency]], [[British India|India]].

At one time a close associate of [[Bal Gangadhar Tilak]], he was co-founder of multiplefounded educational institutes such as the New English School, the [[Deccan Education Society]] and [[Fergusson College]] along with Tilak, [[Vishnushastri Krushnashastri Chiplunkar|Vishnushastri Chiplunkar]], Mahadev Ballal Namjoshi, V. S. [[Vaman Shivram Apte]], V. B. Kelkar, M. S. Gole and N. K. Dharap.{{citation needed|date=July 2017}} He was the first editor of the weekly ''[[Kesari (Marathi newspaper)|Kesari]]'' newspaper and founder and editor of a periodical, ''[[Sudharak]]''. He was the second Principalprincipal of Fergusson College, andserving servedin that post from August-1892 1895 until his death.

Gopal Ganesh Agarkar was born on 14 July 1856 in [[Tembhu]], a village in [[Karad]] [[taluk]], [[Satara district]], Maharashtra.<ref>{{cite book|author=Mohammad Shabbir Khan|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=t3N7tT5kmOsC|title=Tilak and Gokhale: A Comparative Study of Their Socio-politico-economic Programmes of Reconstruction|publisher=APH Publishing|year=1992|page=10|isbn = 9788170244783|quote=In another important aspect the anothersecond year was also significant as in the rank of faculty members, Gopal Ganesh Agarkar (1856-1859) joined. Agarkar was a brilliant Chitpavan Brahmin, M.A. at the Deccan College when Tilak met him first.}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|author=Richard I. Cashman|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=p7nADwAAQBAJ&pg=PA222|title=The Myth of the Lokamanya: Tilak and Mass Politics in Maharashtra|date=25 September 2018|publisher=University of California Press|isbn=978-0520303805|page=222}}</ref> He was a friend of Nilkanth Tidke<ref name="MNS">{{cite web|url=https://www.manase.org/en/maharashtra.php?mid=68&smid=23&pmid=5&id=360 |title=Gopal Ganesh Agarkar |author=Anonymous |work=Social Reformers |publisher=Maharashtra Navnirman Sena |access-date=24 October 2010 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111006163512/https://www.manase.org/en/maharashtra.php?mid=68&smid=23&pmid=5&id=360 |archive-date=6 October 2011 |df=dmy-all }}</ref>

Agarkar was schooled in Karad and thenlater worked as a clerk in a court there. In 1878, he gotreceived his B. A. degree, and in 1880 was awarded an M.A.{{citation needed|date=July 2017}}

== Social activism and Laterlater life ==

He was the first editor of ''Kesari'', a prominent [[Marathi language|Marathi-language]] weekly newspaper founded by Lokmanya Tilak in 1880-811880–1881. Ideological differences with Tilak caused him later to leave. They disagreed on the primacy of political reform versus social reform, with Agarkar believing that the need for social reform was more immediate. He started his own periodical, ''[[Sudharak]]'', in which he campaigned against the injustices of [[untouchability]] and the [[Caste system in India|caste system]]. Agarkar abhorred blind adherence to and glorification of tradition and the past. He supported widow remarriage.<ref name="Tarique">{{cite book|title=Modern Indian History |last=Tarique |first=AuthorMohammad |publisher=Tata McGraw-Hill |isbn=978-0-07-066030-4|page=8.10|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=pcKMD9XWyjAC|access-date=24 October 2010}}</ref> From 1892 to 1895 he was the Principalprincipal of Ferguson collegeCollege.

Agarkar suffered from severe asthma histhroughout entirehis life and succumbed to it on 17 June 1895.

* Marathi translation of [[Shakespeare's play "Hamlet]]" - "VikaraVilasit" ("विकारविलसित")

*Aravind Ganachari [अरविंद गणाचारी]. Gopal Ganesh Agarkar - The Secular Rationalist Reformer. Popular Prakashan, India. 2005. {{ISBN|81-7991-226-4}} (3974). [https://books.google.com/books?id=CUGZBYdGug8C&dqq=gopal+ganesh+agarkar&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjCmb_37OrXAhVDv48KHQLbCOoQ6AEIKzAC]

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