Sri Madhava Ashish was a Scottish-born naturalised Indian spiritualist, mystic, writer and agriculturist, known for his services to Indian agriculture.
10 Facts About Madhava Ashish
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Madhava Ashish was the head of the Mirtola Ashram located in the village of same name, near Almora, in the Indian state of Uttarakhand.
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Madhava Ashish published several articles on the topics of agriculture and ecology of India.
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Sri Madhava Ashish was born Alexander Phipps, on 23 February 1920 at Edinburgh to a Colonel working in the British Indian Army and his early schooling was at Hove and Sherborne.
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Madhava Ashish involved himself with ecological and environmental issues and started experimenting with agricultural techniques which he passed on to the local farmers.
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Madhava Ashish's work is known to have influenced the government to introduce agriculture as a subject of instruction in the schools in the region.
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Madhava Ashish wrote several articles on agriculture and preservation of ecology.
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The book was started by Sri Krishna Prem but Ashish completed it and the book narrates the life and times of Helena Blavatsky, the co-founder of the Theosophical Society of India.
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Five years later, Madhava Ashish died on 13 April 1997, succumbing to cancer, which had been troubling him for some time, and was succeeded as head of the ashram by his disciple Sri Dev Madhava Ashish.
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Madhava Ashish left behind an unfinished book, the biography of his mentor, Sri Krishna Prem.