Karsandas Mulji

Karsandas Mulji
Born (1832-07-25)25 July 1832
Died 25 August 1875(1875-08-25) (aged 43)

Karsandas Mulji (25 July 1832 – 28 August 1875) was an Indian journalist, writer and social reformer from Gujarat. Born to a family belonging to the Bhatias, a trading caste of western India, he was repudiated by his family because of his views on widow remarriage. He became a vernacular schoolmaster and started a weekly paper in Gujarati called Satya Prakash, in which he attacked what he perceived to be the immoralities of the Maharajas or hereditary high priests of the Pushtimarg Vaishnavism, to which the Bhatias belonged. In a libel suit, the Maharaj Libel Case, brought against him in the High Court at Bombay in 1862, he won a victory on the main issue.[1]

After a visit to England on business in connection with the cotton trade, which was not successful and brought on him excommunication from his caste, he was appointed in 1874 to administer a native state in Kathiawar during the minority of the chief.[1] He died there on 28 August 1875.[2][3]

Further reading

  • Karsandas Mulji (1865). History of the Sect of Maharajas or Wallabhacharyas of Western India. Trübner.

References

  1. 1 2 Public Domain One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Mulji, Kursendas". Encyclopædia Britannica. 18 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 960.
  2. ↑ "વીર પત્રકાર કરસનદાસ મૂળજી -Navgujarat Samay". Navgujarat Samay (in Gujarati). 3 May 2014. Retrieved 7 April 2017.
  3. ↑ Scott, J. Barton (2015-03-01). "Luther in the Tropics: Karsandas Mulji and the Colonial "Reformation" of Hinduism". Journal of the American Academy of Religion. 83 (1): 181–209. doi:10.1093/jaarel/lfu114. ISSN 0002-7189.


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