Atmaram Pandurang or Atmaram Pandurang Turkhadekar (or just Turkhad in English publications[1]) (1823 – 26 April 1898) was an Indian physician and social reformer who founded the Prarthana Samaj and was one of the two Indian co-founders (the other being Sakharam Arjun) of the Bombay Natural History Society.[2] A graduate of Grant Medical College, he was a brother of Dadoba Pandurang (9 May 1814 – 17 October 1882), a scholar of Sanskrit and Marathi. Atmaram Pandurang served briefly as sheriff of Bombay in 1879.[3]
- ^ Report of Annual Meeting of Ramabai Association. 11 March, 1890. Ramabai Association. 1890.
- ^ Millard W. S. (1932) (15 September 1886). "The founders of the Bombay Natural History Society". Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society. 35. No. 1 & 2: 196–197.
{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link) - ^ Ramanna, Mridula (2002). Western Medicine and Public Health in Colonial Bombay, 1845-1895. Orient Blackswan. p. 46.