Dadoba Pandurang

Dadoba Pandurang (Tarkhadkar) (9 May 1814– 17 October 1882) (Pune, Maharashtra, British India) was a social reformer and linguistic from Bombay.

He wrote extensively on religion and social reform as an opponent of rituals and caste, while supporting widow-remarriage and education for women.

The headmaster at this school in Surat was Henry Green, a noted agnostic and free thinker who influenced Pandurang.

Other publications included Yashoda Pandurangi (1865), Dharam Vivechan (1868), Paramhamsik Bramhadharma (1880), A Hindu Gentleman's Reflections respecting the works of Swedenborg (1878), The absurdity of the Holi Festival as it is now practised by the Hindus (1829), Shishubodh (posthumously published in 1884) and Vidhavasrumarjan (1857).

In 1848, he founded and presided over the Upayukta Jnanprasarak Sabha, a students' literary and scientific society which met to discuss various topics every alternate Thursday.