Raghunath Dhondo Karve (14 January 1882 – 14 October 1953) was a professor of mathematics, sex educator and a social reformer from Maharashtra, India.
However, when he started publicly expressing his views about family planning, population control, and women's right to experience sexual/sensual pleasure as much as men, the conservative Christian administrators of the college asked him to resign from the professorship.
[4] In it, he continually discussed issues of society's wellbeing through population control by use of contraceptives so as prevent unwanted pregnancies and induced abortions.
He promoted responsible parenting by men, gender equality, and women's empowerment and right to experience sexual and sensual pleasure.
In the third essay, he analyses why Karve was not as successful in his mission as much as Margaret Sanger and Marie Stopes, his counterparts in United States and UK, respectively.
Karve's mission was not restricted to that of Sanger and Stopes namely happy family life, emancipation of women, control of population.