Karsandas Mulji

[2] 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 because of the notion prevalent at those times regarding crossing the seas.

[9] Unhappy with the limited readership of these magazines, with the help of Mangalbhai Naththubhai, Mulji in the year 1855 founded a Gujarati newspaper named Satyaprakash targeting orthodox Hindus.

However Satyprakash was published for merely six years before closing in 1861 and latter dissolving into Rast Goftar, the same newspaper which he had previously left due to its lesser audience.

[11] Mahipatram Rupram Nilkanth wrote his biography in Gujarati entitled Uttam Kapol Karsandas Mulji Charitra (1877) with an introductory sketch in English.

In his film, Siddharth P. Malhotra dramatises the historic Maharaj libel case of 1862, in which imperial British justices mediate a dispute between progressive reform and religious conservatism in a subject country.