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Gopaalrao - the person
As a person Gopalrao was a very principled man. He had obtained a Bachelor's degree in mathematics from the Ferguson College in Pune. In those days, with such a qualification, he could have easily got a job with handsome salary. But, instead he decided to serve Dakshinamurty, an educational institution of relatively small means, and accepted a salary barely enough to sustain his family. This was a 'nationalist' institute following Gandhian principles. During his twenty-year career there he participated in Gandhi's nonviolent freedom struggle against the British Empire, and spent six months in Yerwada prison in Pune. At Dakshinamurty he was a close associate of the then stalwart educationists like Mr. Nanabhai Bhatt and Gijubhai Badheka. Under Gijubhai's advice he trained himself in the Montessori system of child education. Later, when Dakshinamurty closed down, he joined and worked for M/s. R.R. Sheth & Co., a private publishing house who published all his translations.
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