The Journal of the Ganganatha Jha Research Institute May 1949

In the literary circles of Bombay and Maharashtra the name of BM Gangadhar Mari Jambhekar has been known as one of the earliest writers of books in Marathi and so to say one of the founders of the modern Maritthi prose literature. [...] As a Superintendent of Eduction in charge of one of the Divisions of the Bombay Presidency he worked enthusiastically and helped the Department of Education a good deal in laying the foundations of the system of primary education in thoseLIFE & WORK OF BAL GANGADHAR SHASTRI 215 early days. [...] The Board of Education also referred to the loss sutained by the death of Balshastri in its report for the year 1846 :— " Bal Shastree united in an eminent degree the highest quantities which a paternal Government would look for on the part of one who devotes himself to the business of the instruction of youth. [...] Can we expect any commentator to explain the significance of the case in the dissolution bfore the dissolution is actually given ? The most natural course to expect would be to have the dissolution first and the explanation of the significance of the case occuring therein only afterwards. [...] His descendants still constitute the bulk of the inhabitants of Belpukur but the book under question was discovered in the house of a Sanskrit scholar belonging to a different family though of the same original stock of the Banerjis This family produced an unbroken line of distinguished scholars of the DharmaAstra.' The leaves of the Ms.