Gopal Ganesh Agarkar: Difference between revisions

| name = Gopal Ganesh Agarkar<hr/> गोपाळ गणेश आगरकर

At one time a close associate of [[Bal Gangadhar Tilak]], he co-founded 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 principal of Fergusson College, serving in that post from August 18921895 until his death.

A locality in [[Andheri]], [[Mumbai]] outside the [[Andheri railway station|railway station]] (east side) is named after him as Agarkar Chowk, and another locality in [[Pune]] containing the [[Pune railway station]] and [[General post office]] of Pune (with the Zero Milestone of Pune) is named after him as [[Agarkar Nagar]].