Atmaram Pandurang

He went to the Elphinstone Institution (along with fellow student Dadabhai Naoroji) where he studied mathematics under Bal Gangadhar Shastri Jambhekar (1812-1846).

He believed and openly supported the idea that the minimum age for marriage of girls should be twenty, to the disapproval of contemporary conservative Hindu society.

[13] Pandurang belonged to a highly educated and influential family and his circle of acquaintances included reformists from across the country.

When Rabindranath Tagore intended to visit England in 1878, he stayed for a time in their Bombay home and sought to improve his English with the assistance of Pandurang's second daughter Annapurna or Ana.

[14] Ana Turkhud, however, married Harold Littledale, professor of history and English literature at Baroda on 11 November 1880 and died in Edinburgh on 5 July 1891.