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'''Karsandas Mulji''' (25 July 1832{{snd}}28 August 1871) <ref name="EB1911"/> was a [[Gujarati language]] journalist, writer and social reformer from India. According to 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica <ref name="EB1911"/> his death occurred in 1875, which may be more likely as it is mentioned that he was appointed to administer a state in [[Kathiawar]] in 1874.

== Biography ==
Born to a family belonging to the Kapol Caste, a trading caste of western [[India]], he was repudiated by his family because of his views on widow remarriage. He became a vernacular schoolmaster and started ''[[Satyaprakash]],'' a weekly in [[Gujarati language|Gujarati]], in which he attacked what he perceived to be the immoralities of the [[Maharaja]]s or hereditary high priests of the [[Pushtimarg]] [[Vaishnavism]], to which the Bhatias belonged. In a libel suit, the [[Maharaj Libel Case]], brought against him in the [[Bombay High Court|High Court at Bombay]] in 1862, he won a victory on the main issue.<ref name="EB1911">{{cite EB1911|wstitle= Mulji, Kursendas | volume= 18 | page = 960 }}</ref>

After a visit to [[England]] on business in connection with the [[cotton]] trade, which was not successful and brought on him [[excommunication]] from his [[caste]], he was appointed in 1874 to administer a native state in [[Kathiawar]] during the minority of the chief.<ref name="EB1911"/> He died there in August 1875.<ref name="Navgujarat Samay 2014">{{cite web | title=વીર પત્રકાર કરસનદાસ મૂળજી -Navgujarat Samay | website=Navgujarat Samay | date=3 May 2014 | url=http://navgujaratsamay.indiatimes.com/navgujarat-samay-supplementaries-gujarati-columnist/kadar-and-kitab/articleshow/34570935.cms | language=gu | accessdate=7 April 2017}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal|last=Scott|first=J. Barton|date=2015-03-01|title=Luther in the Tropics: Karsandas Mulji and the Colonial "Reformation" of Hinduism|url=https://academic.oup.com/jaar/article/83/1/181/694268/Luther-in-the-Tropics-Karsandas-Mulji-and-the|journal=Journal of the American Academy of Religion|volume=83|issue=1|pages=181–209|doi=10.1093/jaarel/lfu114|hdl=1807/95442|issn=0002-7189|hdl-access=free}}</ref>

[[Mahipatram Rupram Nilkanth]] wrote his biography in Gujarati entitled ''Uttam Kapol Karsandas Mulji Charitra'' (1877) with an introductory sketch in English. ''Karsandas Mulji: A Biographical Study'' (1935) is another critical biography written by B. N. Motiwala.<ref>{{cite book|editor=Murali Ranganathan|title=Govind Narayan's Mumbai: An Urban Biography from 1863|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=hstRDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA344|date=1 February 2009|publisher=Anthem Press|location=London|isbn=978-0-85728-689-5|page=344}}</ref>

==References==
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==Further reading==
* {{cite book|author=Karsandas Mulji|title=History of the Sect of Maharajas or Wallabhacharyas of Western India|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9xAkAAAAMAAJ|year=1865|publisher=Trübner}}

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[[Category:Journalists from Gujarat]]
[[Category:1832 births]]
[[Category:1875 deaths]]
[[Category:19th-century Indian journalists]]
[[Category:19th-century Indian male writers]]
[[Category:Gujarati-language writers]]
[[Category:People from Surat]]
[[Category:Gujaratis from Mumbai]]

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