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Established the Hindu Widows Home Association
- However, despite being ostracized by the society, Karve didn’t stop raising his voice against this unjust discrimination. In 1895, he established the Hindu Widows Home Association, a welfare institution that helped widows support themselves. A year later, he set up India’s first school for widows at Hingane village (near Poona).
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Apr 18, 2016 · Continuing with his effort for helping widows, Maharishi Karve even founded an educational institution, Hindu Widows Home, in 1896, in Poona to help widows support themselves, in case they were unable to remarry.
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Dhondo Keshav Karve (18 April 1858 – 9 November 1962) (pronunciation ⓘ), popularly known as Maharshi Karve, was a social reformer in India in the field of women's welfare. He advocated widow remarriage, and he himself remarried a widow as a widower.
Oct 27, 2017 · In 1895, he established the Hindu Widows Home Association, a welfare institution that helped widows support themselves. A year later, he set up India’s first school for widows at Hingane village (near Poona).
Apr 17, 2022 · • In 1896, he founded the “Hindu Widow's Home Association” (also known as Hindu Widows Home or Widows Home Association), a shelter and school for widows in Hingane, Maharashtra. He chose the remote location because he had been expelled from Pune's orthodox Brahmin community for supporting widow remarriage and education.
Dhondo Keshav Karve was an Indian social reformer and educator, noted for supporting the education of women and for organizing associations for the remarriage of Hindu widows. While an instructor in mathematics (1891–1914) at Fergusson College, Poona, Karve became concerned with breaking down.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Dhondo Keshav Karve was an eminent Indian social reformer and educator who championed the cause of women education and remarriage of Hindu widows. He was popularly called ‘Maharshi’ which means ‘a great sage’.
Apr 17, 2023 · In 1896, the reformer from Maharashtra also founded an educational institution, Hindu Widows Home in Pune, to help widows support themselves if they could not remarry.
