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{{Short description|Indian Social Reformer, and Educationist}}{{more citations needed|date=June 2017}}
{{Use Indian English|date=May 2016}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=July 2013}}
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| image = Gopal Ganesh Agarkar.jpg
| caption =
| native_name_lang = गोपाळ गणेश आगरकर
| birth_date = {{Birth date|1856|07|14|df=yes}}
| death_date = {{Death date and age|1895|06|17|1856|07|14|df=yes}}
| birth_place = Tembhu, [[Bombay Presidency]], [[Company Raj]]<br/>(in-present [[Satara District]], [[Maharashtra|Maharashtra, India]])
| death_place = [[Pune]], [[Bombay Presidency]], [[British India]]<br/>(in-present [[Maharashtra|Maharashtra, India]])
| known_for = Founder of the [[Deccan Education Society]]
| spouse = Antubai
| education = B.A. in History and M.A. in History
}}

'''''Gopal Ganesh Agarkar''''' (14 July 1856 – 17 June 1895) was an Indian [[social reformer]], educationist, and thinker from [[Maharashtra]], [[British India|India]].

At one time a close associate of [[Bal Gangadhar Tilak]], he was co-founder of multiple educational institutes such as the New English School, the [[Deccan Education Society]] and [[Fergusson College]] along with Tilak, [[Vishnushastri Krushnashastri Chiplunkar|Vishnushastri Chiplunkar]], Mahadev Ballal Namjoshi, V. S. Apte, V. B. Kelkar, M. S. Gole and N. K. Dharap.{{citation needed|date=July 2017}} He was the first editor of the weekly ''[[Kesari (newspaper)|Kesari]]'' and founder and editor of a periodical, ''[[Sudharak]]''. He was the second Principal of Fergusson College and served that post from August-1892 until his death.

==Early life==
Gopal Ganesh Agarkar was born on 14 July 1856 in [[Tembhu]], a village in [[Karad]] [[taluk]], [[Satara district]], Maharashtra.<ref>{{cite book|author=Mohammad Shabbir Khan|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=t3N7tT5kmOsC|title=Tilak and Gokhale: A Comparative Study of Their Socio-politico-economic Programmes of Reconstruction|publisher=APH Publishing|year=1992|page=10|isbn = 9788170244783|quote=In another important aspect the another year was also significant as in the rank of faculty members, Gopal Ganesh Agarkar (1856-1859) joined. Agarkar was a brilliant Chitpavan Brahmin, M.A. at the Deccan College when Tilak met him first.}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|author=Richard I. Cashman|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=p7nADwAAQBAJ&pg=PA222|title=The Myth of the Lokamanya: Tilak and Mass Politics in Maharashtra|date=25 September 2018|publisher=University of California Press|isbn=978-0520303805|page=222}}</ref> He was a friend of Nilkanth Tidke<ref name="MNS">{{cite web|url=https://www.manase.org/en/maharashtra.php?mid=68&smid=23&pmid=5&id=360 |title=Gopal Ganesh Agarkar |author=Anonymous |work=Social Reformers |publisher=Maharashtra Navnirman Sena |access-date=24 October 2010 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111006163512/https://www.manase.org/en/maharashtra.php?mid=68&smid=23&pmid=5&id=360 |archive-date=6 October 2011 |df=dmy-all }}</ref>

Agarkar was schooled in Karad and then worked as a clerk in a court there. In 1878, he got his B. A. degree, and in 1880 was awarded an M.A.{{citation needed|date=July 2017}}

== Social activism and Later life ==
He was the first editor of ''Kesari'', a prominent [[Marathi language|Marathi-language]] weekly newspaper founded by Lokmanya Tilak in 1880-81. Ideological differences with Tilak caused him later to leave. They disagreed on the primacy of political reform versus social reform, with Agarkar believing that the need for social reform was more immediate. He started his own periodical, ''[[Sudharak]]'', in which he campaigned against the injustices of [[untouchability]] and the [[Caste system in India|caste system]]. Agarkar abhorred blind adherence to and glorification of tradition and the past. He supported widow remarriage.<ref name="Tarique">{{cite book|title=Modern Indian History |last=Tarique |first=Author |publisher=Tata McGraw-Hill |isbn=978-0-07-066030-4|page=8.10|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=pcKMD9XWyjAC|access-date=24 October 2010}}</ref> From 1892 to 1895 he was the Principal of Ferguson college.

Agarkar suffered from severe asthma his entire life and succumbed to it on 17 June 1895

==Publications==

* ''Futke Nashib'' (Biography)
* ''Alankar Mimmansa'' (अलंकार मीमांसा)
* ''Dongarichy Turangatil'' ''101 divas'' (1882)
* Marathi translation of [[Hamlet]]

==References==
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==Further reading==
*{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=4NjZAAAAMAAJ |title=Gopal Ganesh Agarkar [गोपाळ गणेश आगरकर] |author=[[S. M. Garge]] [स मा गर्गे] |year=1996 |publisher=National Book Trust, India |isbn=81-237-1745-8}}
*Aravind Ganachari [अरविंद गणाचारी]. Gopal Ganesh Agarkar - The Secular Rationalist Reformer. Popular Prakashan, India. 2005. {{ISBN|81-7991-226-4}} (3974). [https://books.google.com/books?id=CUGZBYdGug8C&dq=gopal+ganesh+agarkar&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjCmb_37OrXAhVDv48KHQLbCOoQ6AEIKzAC]

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