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Madgodkar : Govind Dinānāth Madgavkar [so spelt in ICS record; Madgodkar in Light to Superlight ed. A.C. Dutta; Madgaokar in CWSA]: educated in Bombay at St. Xavier’s School & College, & Elphinstone College: Passed July 1890 ICS Entrance Exam in London, stood 42nd to Sri Aurobindo’s 11th, & entered Balliol College; in Final ICS Exam of July 1892, rose to 18th rank to Sri Aurobindo’s to 37th: Asst. Commissioner, Burma: transferred in 1897 to Bombay as Asst. Collector, then Collector, then District & Sessions Judge, then Puisne Judge, Bombay High Court. [ICS Record] ― Beachcroft, of same ICS batch, began as Asst. Magistrate & Collector Bengal, then Puisne Judge in 1915, knighted on retirement – not so Madgavkar being Congressman, social worker, & nationalist. In 1902, Sri Aurobindo & Barin met him to request funds for sending Madhavrao Jādhav to Europe for military training. Madgavkar donated Rs.1,000, & with Tilak & Sri Aurobindo, also attended 1902 INC Session at Ahmedabad.

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... to in the second paragraph may be the letter to Anandrao (see above). Note however that according to Arun Chandra Dutt ( Light to Superlight , pp. 4 - 5), the Marathi friend was a merchant named Madgodkar, apparently the same as the Madgaokar mentioned in letter [9] below. The "case" mentioned in the penultimate paragraph is the one that Mayuresan tried to set up; see "Note on a Forged Document" ...

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