Krushnashastri Chiplunkar

Krushnashastri Chiplunkar (Devanagari: कृष्णशास्त्री चिपळूणकर) (1824–1878) was a social activist and a Marathi writer from Maharashtra, India.

Krishna Shastri Chiplunkar
Krishna Shastri Chiplunkar

For some years, he served as a principal of the Teachers' Training College in Pune.

Chiplunkar was a scholar especially in Sanskrit Nyaya (न्याय) (Logic), Dharma (धर्म) (Religion, Law, and Ethics), and Artha (अर्थ) (Economics).

Learning English was not common among Indian scholars of his time, yet he started learning it at age 25, and mastered it along with Sanskrit and Marathi.

He was a leading personality in the city of Pune during his life.