Dhondo Keshav Karve

Born: 18 April 1858

Died: 9 November 1962

He popularly known as Maharishi Karve, was a social reformer in India in the field of women’s welfare.
In his honour, Queen’s Road in Mumbai (Bombay) was renamed to Maharshi Karve Road.
He was a pioneer in promoting widows’ education.
The Government of India awarded him with the highest civilian award, the Bharat Ratna, in 1958, the year of his 100th birthday.
The appellation Maharshi, which the Indian public often assigned to Karve, means ”a great sage”.
He was also sometimes affectionately called “Annā Karve”; in the Marathi-speaking community to which Karve belonged, the appellation “Annā” is often used to address either one’s father or an elder brother.
He was also the first living Indian to appear on a postal stamp of India.
During 1891–1914, he taught mathematics at Fergusson College in Pune, Maharashtra.
He wrote two autobiographical works: Ātmawrutta (1928) in Marathi, and Looking Back (1936) in English.