Dhondo Keshav Karve, Indian activist and academic (born 1858)

Dhondo Keshav Karve

Indian social reformer (1858–1962)

Dhondo Keshav Karve, popularly known as Maharshi Karve, was a social reformer in India in the field of women's welfare. He advocated widow remarriage, and he himself remarried a widow as a widower. Karve was a pioneer in promoting widows' education. He founded the first women's…