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“ But when more than fifteen years ago, the disabilities a persecutions to which our countrymen in South Africa were subjected became known in India, he came out of his seclusion and presided over a great protest meeting held in Poona.
He was a great religious and social reformer. He was the venerable leader of the Prarthana Samaj movement in the Bombay Presidency. His Marathi sermons and other religious discourses are a source of edification and inspiration to their many readers. ”

“ Sir Ramkrishna Gopal Bhandarkar India loses a great orientalist of International reputation. He was an eminent educationalist. Besides being a teacher, he prepared a series of books which have helped large numbers of students in and outside Bombay Presidency to learn Sanskrit with comparative ease. ”

“ He dies full of years and honours, being over 88 at the time of his death. It is greatly to be regretted that he has had to pay the penalty of longevity in the shape of many bereavements, the latest being the death a few months ago of his son Rao Bahadur Dr. Prabhakar Bhandarkar, a ripe Marathi scholar who served the Indore State ably and long first as the Maharaja’s physician and subsequently as Minister of Education. ”