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.
... 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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