Mahipatram Rupram Nilkanth was a Gujarati educationist, reformer, novelist and biographer from 19th century India.

He was born in Surat on 3 December 1829 to Vadnagara Nagar Brahmin family of Rupram Nilkanth and Girijagauri.

In 1852, he joined Highschool department of Elphinstone Institute, Bombay and was appointed an assistant teacher in 1854.

He was later appointed an acting headmaster at the Ahmedabad High School in 1857 and later made a deputy education inspector there.

[1] In 1885, he was awarded Rao Saheb and Companions of the Order of the Indian Empire (CIE) by the British government.

He was associated with Ahmedabad Prarthana Samaj and Gujarat Vernacular Society as well several other organisations seeking social reforms like widow remarriage, prohibition of child marriage.

Akbarcharitra (1887, second edition) is his historical biography of Akbar which is mostly based on English translation of Akbarnama.

[2][1] From 1856 onward, he wrote booklets on life-sketches of Columbus, Galileo Galilei, Isaac Newton etc.

He had also written books on education, geography, geology, science, medicine which were mostly translated works for students.