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GS I-History Karsandas Mulji has recently gained attention due to the release of the biopic Maharaj. Early Life and Education Born in 1832 in Bombay, into a Gujarati Vaishnav family. A prominent member of the Gujarati Gnan-prasarak Mandali (Gujarati Society for the Spread of Knowledge), established by students of Elphinstone College. Studied at Elphinstone College, where he was classmates with notable reformists like poet Narmad and educationist Mahipatram Neelkanth. Contributed writings to ... Maharaj, a biopic on Karsandas Mulji, a journalist and a social reformer, is currently streaming on Netflix. Mulji gained fame and notoriety after he accused a religious leader of sexual impropriety. In response, the accused, Jadunath Maharaj, filed a libel case against Mulji, which played out in ... Who is Karsandas Mulji? Born in 1832, Karsandas Mulji was a Gujarati language journalist and social reformative writer who was renounced by his family because of his liberal views on widow remarriage which were alien to his time. Mulji became a regional school teacher and eventually started a weekly Gujarati language newspaper – Satyaprakash through which he attacked the immoralities of the society. The Gujarat High Court has stayed 'Maharaj', a Netflix film by YRF, starring Aamir Khan's son as Karsandas Mulji. Who was Mulji, and why is his 1862 case regarded as one of the most important in India's legal history? And what did Narendra Modi, as the CM of Gujarat, have to say about Mulji?
