These institutions intended to provide a more patriotically inclined education as opposed to the schools run by the government in British India.

[citation needed] In 1878, Chiplunkar founded another monthly named Kavyetihas Sangraha (काव्येतिहास संग्रह) with the objective of better familiarizing the readers with the poetry and history of Maharashtra.

Eventually he became the editor of this periodical, however some of his articles criticizing the conduct of the British Government and Christian Missionaries proved controversial, and the ensuing repercussions forced the closure of Shalapatrak in 1875.

[4] Vishnushastri's Marathi prose style was moulded on the one hand by his knowledge of Sanskrit, and on the other by his extensive reading into the works of Samuel Johnson, Addison and Macaulay.

In the Marathi film Lokmanya: Ek Yug Purush on the life of Bal Gangadhar Tilak, Om Raut plays the character of Vishnushastrii.