Dadoba Pandurang

Dadoba Pandurang (Tarkhadkar) (9 May 1814– 17 October 1882) (Pune, Maharashtra, British India) was a social reformer and linguist from Bombay. He was born with the surname Tarkhadkar in a Maharashtrian Vaishya family, but he never used it in later life. He wrote extensively on religion and social reform as an opponent of rituals and caste, while supporting widow-remarriage and education for women. He was brothers with Atmaram Pandurang and Bhaskarrao Pandurang Tarkhadkar. His brother Atmaram Pandurang had three daughters named Durga, Manik and Annapurna. Annapurna was known as Anna, she was one of the first girl in Maharashtra who went abroad for higher education along with her sisters Anna and young Rabindranath Tagore were very close, and the latter is supposed to have penned poems for her.