Bal Ganghadhar Shastri Jambhekar known as Bal Shastri Jambhekar was an Indian journalist from Bombay Presidency.
23 Facts About Balshastri Jambhekar
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Balshastri Jambhekar was the first to start journalism in Marathi with the first newspaper in this language named Darpan in the early days of British Rule in India.
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Balshastri Jambhekar was born on 20th February 1812 in the remote village of Pombhurle in Devgad taluka in Konkan region of Maharashtra state.
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Talented and intelligent since childhood, Balshastri Jambhekar became a great scholar and researcher in many subjects on adulthood.
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Balshastri Jambhekar was active only for a very short period, but his exceptional work left a permanent mark on India.
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Balshastri Jambhekar had grasped correctly the importance and power of the print media in the coming times during British Rule in India.
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Balshastri Jambhekar was sure that if the British were to be overthrown and freedom was to be attained, then it was essential to awaken the masses and the print media was the most useful tool to that end.
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Balshastri Jambhekar was editor of this newspaper during the British rule in India.
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Balshastri Jambhekar specifically dealt with the issues of widow remarriage in his newspaper.
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Balshastri Jambhekar tried to develop a scientific set of mind in the masses of uneducated Indian, Maharashtra.
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Balshastri Jambhekar passionately desired that the knowledge should percolate in the society and Darpan was one of the means to this end.
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Balshastri Jambhekar was aware that the country could only progress with the use of scientific knowledge and a rational outlook towards social problems.
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Balshastri Jambhekar wanted to build a society having a scientific outlook.
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Balshastri Jambhekar was one of those social activists who made continuous effort in generating useful and healthy consciousness amongst the common masses and attempted to educate the uneducated.
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Balshastri Jambhekar's never-dying talent and endeavour left a stamp over not only the Maharashtrian public, but across India, as a distinguished social reformer and journalist.
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Balshastri Jambhekar had mastery in many languages including Marathi, Sanskrit, English and Hindi.
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Balshastri Jambhekar was the first Indian to have published research papers in the quarterly journal of the Asiatic Society.
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Balshastri Jambhekar was the first person to print Dnyaneshwari in 1845.
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Balshastri Jambhekar was well known as the first professor of Hindi in the Elphinston College, Mumbai.
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Balshastri Jambhekar wrote books like Neetikatha, Encyclopedic History of England, English grammar, History of India and Mathematics based on Zero.
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Balshastri Jambhekar was active during the years 1830 to 1846 and worked for the betterment of Maharashtra and India.
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Balshastri Jambhekar had a very short life span of just 34 years.
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Ranade noted that in terms of intellectual stature Balshastri Jambhekar was perhaps the only one who could have matched up to the intellectual level of Justice Ranade who he said was one of the foremost of Indian university graduates.