| Gopal Krishna Gokhale | |
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| Birthplace | Kothluk, Ratnagiri Dist., Bombay Presidency, British India |
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Born May 9, 1866, in Kolhapur Maharashtra; died Feb. 19, 1915, in Poona. A leader of the national liberation movement in India at the end of the 19th century and beginning of the 20th century.
Gokhale was one of the most important leaders of the moderate wing of the Indian National Congress (INC). He graduated from Elphinstone College in Bombay in 1884 and was a professor of history and political economy in a college in Poona until 1902. He was a leader of the Citizen’s League of Poona, an organization of the nationalists’ moderate wing in Maharashtra. He became a member of INC in 1889 and of the Legislative Council of Bombay in 1899. In 1902 he became a member of the Central Legislative Council to the English viceroy in India. He was elected president of the INC in 1905. In 1905 he founded the Servants of India society, which advocated social reforms, and was its leader until 1915.
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