Sakharam Arjun

[4] Arjun studied at Elphinstone Institution and joined Grant Medical College as a Stipendiary Student in 1858.

[5] He joined to teach medical botany and was made an assistant, the first Indian in the position, to William Guyer Hunter.

Sakharam was interested in public education on health and published Vaidyatatva (1869), Garbhavidya va Prasutikaran (1873), Vivahavidnyan (1877) among others.

This led to a landmark court case and Rukhmabai later went to study medicine in London (with the assistance of others like Edith Pechey Phipson) to become one of the first Indian women doctors.

In 1883, Sakharam Arjun was one of two Indian founding members (the other being Atmaram Pandurang) of the Bombay Natural History Society.