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Malabari, B.M. : Bahraini Merwānji (1853-1912): educated at Surat: taught in the Parsi Proprietary School: social reformer & poet, famous for his service in the cause of Indian women, children, & education; took up journalism, purchased the Indian (or Bombay?) Spectator in 1880, edited it for more than 20 years then merged it with The Voice of India: instrumental in procuring the passage of “The Age of Consent Bill” in the Bombay legislature & in removing restrictions against remarriage of Hindu widows: translated Max Müller’s Origin & Growth of Religion 1882, Gujarat & Gujaratis 1884, The Indian Eye on English Life 1893, The Indian Problem 1894: & edited East & West 1901-12. [Buckland]