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'''Kashinath Trimbak Telang''' {{post-nominals|country=GBR|CIE}} (20 August 1850, [[Mumbai|Bombay]] – 1 September 1893, Bombay) was an [[Indologist]] and [[India]]n [[judge]] at [[Bombay High Court]].<br />
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==Early life and education==<br />
Telang was born in a Gaud Saraswat brahmin family.<ref name="Chandrachud2015">{{cite book|author=Abhinav Chandrachud|title=An Independent, Colonial Judiciary: A History of the Bombay High Court during the British Raj, 1862–1947|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=doM8DwAAQBAJ&pg=PT8|date=28 May 2015|publisher=OUP India|isbn=978-0-19-908948-2|pages=8–}}</ref><br />
At the age of five Telang was sent to the Amarchaud Wadi [[vernacular]] school, and in 1859 entered the high school in Bombay which bears the name of [[Mountstuart Elphinstone]]. Here he came under the influence of Narayan Mahadev Purmanand, a teacher of fine intellect and force of character, afterwards one of Telang's most intimate friends.{{sfn|Chisholm|1911}}<br />
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As a student he had won the Bhugwandas scholarship in [[Sanskrit]], and in this language his later studies were profound. From this school he passed to the [[Elphinstone College]], of which he became a fellow, and after taking the degree of [[Master's degree|M.A.]] and [[LL.B.]], decided to follow the example of Bal Mangesh Wagle, the first Indian admitted by the judges to practise on the original side of the high court, a position more like the status of a [[barrister]] than a ''vakil'' or pleader. He passed the examination and was enrolled in 1872.{{sfn|Chisholm|1911}}<br />
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==Career==<br />
===Legal career===<br />
By profession an [[advocate]] of the high court, he also took a vigorous share in literary, social, municipal and political work, as well as in the affairs of the [[University of Mumbai|University of Bombay]], over which he presided as vice-chancellor from 1892 until his death.{{sfn|Chisholm|1911}}<br />
His learning and other gifts soon brought him an extensive practice. He had complete command of the [[English language]], and his intimacy with [[Sanskrit]] enabled him to study and quote the [[Hindu]] law-books with an ease not readily attained by [[Europe]]an counsel. He was one of the counsel for the defendant, [[Rukhmabai]] in the famous restitution of conjugal rights brought by her husband.<ref name="Kosambi2000">{{cite book|author1=Toshio Yamazaki|author2=Meera Kosambi (Editor)|title=Intersections: Socio-cultural Trends in Maharashtra|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=XU8dmAiaZSgC&pg=PA1|year=2000|publisher=Orient Blackswan|isbn=978-81-250-1878-0|pages=81–91|chapter=Justice K.T. Telang}}</ref> Telang, finding his career assured, declined an offer of official employment. But in 1889 he accepted a seat on the high court bench, where his judgments are recognized as authoritative, especially on the [[Hindu law]].{{sfn|Chisholm|1911}}<br />
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===Educationalist===<br />
He was [[syndic]] of the university from 1881, and [[Chancellor (education)|vice-chancellor]] from 1892 until his death. In that year also he was elected President of the [[The Asiatic Society of Mumbai|Bombay Branch]] of the [[Royal Asiatic Society]]. These two offices had never been held by a native of India before. The decoration of [[C.I.E.]] conferred on him in the [[1884 Birthday Honours]]<ref>{{London Gazette |issue=25357 |page=2287 |date=23 May 1884 }}</ref> was a recognition of his services as a member of [[Hunter Commission]] appointed by the colonial government to deal with the educational system of India.<ref name="Kosambi2000"/><br />
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===Politics===<br />
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Telang was active in politics from 1872 to 1889. He was nominated to the Bombay legislative council in 1884, but declined a similar position on the [[Viceroy's Executive Council|viceroy's council]]. He and fellow Bombay lawyers, [[Pherozshah Mehta]], and [[Badruddin Tyabji]] were the founders of the [[Bombay Presidency|Bombay Presidency Association]].<ref name="Kosambi2000"/> He was the secretary of reception committee for the inaugural meeting of the [[Indian National Congress]] in 1885.{{sfn|Chisholm|1911}}<br />
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===Sanskrit scholar===<br />
His translation of the [[Bhagavad Gita]] into English prose and verse is a standard work, and available in [[Max Müller]]'s monumental compilation, the ''[[Sacred Books of the East]]'', vol. 8, as the ''Bhagavadgita With the [[Sanatsugatiya|Sanatsugâtiya]] and the Anugitâ'' (published 1882). Also notable is his publication, in 1884, of the historical Sanskrit play, ''[[Mudrarakshasa]]'' of ''[[Vishakhadatta]]'' under the auspices of the Education Department and the Government Central Book Depot, Bombay. He criticized [[Albrecht Weber]]'s hypothesis that the story of the [[Ramayana]] was influenced by the [[Homer]]ic epics. While devoted to the sacred classics of the Hindus, Telang did not neglect his own vernacular, [[Marathi language|Marathi]] literature being enriched by his translation of [[Gotthold Ephraim Lessing|Lessing]]'s ''[[Nathan the Wise]]'', and an essay on ''Social Compromise''.{{sfn|Chisholm|1911}}<br />
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==Works==<br />
* ''[https://archive.org/details/bhagavadgtwi00tela The Bhagavadgîtâ With the Sanatsugâtîya and the Anugîtâ]'' (1882)<br />
* ''[https://archive.org/details/risemarathapowe00bahagoog Rise of the Maráthá Power]'' (1900)<br />
* ''[https://archive.org/details/mudrarakshasawit00visauoft Mudrarakshasa With the Commentary of Dhundiraja]'' (1915)<br />
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==Notes==<br />
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==References==<br />
*{{EB1911|wstitle= Telang, Kashinath Trimbak|volume=26 }}<br />
*{{cite book|author=Vasant Narayan Naik|title=Kashinath Trimbak Telang, the Man and His Times|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=WcshAAAAMAAJ|year=1895|publisher=[[G. A. Natesan]]}}<br />
*{{Cite web |url=http://inc.in/organization/33-Pherozeshah-Mehta/profile |title=Archived copy |access-date=11 July 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170709113633/http://inc.in/organization/33-Pherozeshah-Mehta/profile |archive-date=9 July 2017 |url-status=dead }}<br />
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==External links==<br />
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* {{Internet Archive author |sname=Kashinath Trimbak Telang}}<br />
*''Mudrarakshasa'' of ''Vishakhadatta'' (critical notes and introduction in English) includes 1713 CE commentary of Dhundhiraj; at google books [https://books.google.com/books?id=VL0IAAAAQAAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq=M]<br />
*The ''Bhagvadgita'' with the ''[[Sanatsugatiya]]'' and ''Anugita'' Vol.8, The Sacred Books of the East. Translated by Kashinath Trimbak Telang [http://www.sacred-texts.com/hin/sbe08/index.htm]<br />
* [http://bombayhighcourt.nic.in/jshowpuisne.php?auth=amdldGlkPTMzJnBhZ2Vubz00 Brief biography at Bombay High Court]<br />
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