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Chandrashekhar Agashe
Chandrashekhar Govind Agashe was an Indian industrialist, lawyer, educator, and philanthropist, best remembered as the founder of the Brihan Maharashtra Sugar Syndicate Ltd. He served as the managing agent of the company from its inception in 1934 till his death in 1956.
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business · Indian industrialist (1888–1956) · industrialist · entrepreneur · jurist · also Chandrashekhar Agashe, Chandrashekhar Agashe I, Agashe, Chandrashekhar
Born 14 February 1888 · Died 9 June 1956 · Q28101716
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2004· 1 entry
The Pune Ithihasik Vastu Smruti (Pune Heritage department of the Kesari Trust) honoured Agashe with a blue plaque outside the Deo Wada, his residence during his lifetime, in Shaniwar Peth, Pune
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1997· 1 entry
Agashe became the namesake of his great-grandson Chandrashekhar Agashe II
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1992· 1 entry
Agashe was the subject of a biography written by his second-eldest daughter Shakuntala Karandikar
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1956· 1 entry
Died 1956-06-09.
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1955· 1 entry
And donated his family collection of ancient Indian musical instruments to the Raja Dinkar Kelkar Museum
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1954· 1 entry
Also represented the Deccan Agricultural Association on the board of the Mahatma Phule Museum
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1948· 1 entry
Donated to the Patient's Relief Association in Solapur, and further founded the Kaushik lectureship at the Sir Parashurambhau College in support of Sanskrit studies, theosophy, and the Aryan peoples, with philosopher
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1947· 1 entry
Agashe was able to expand the syndicate's production to 1000 tonnes of sugar cane processed per annum by 1950
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1943· 1 entry
The Bombay Presidency decreed the plantation of food crops as mandatory for private sugar manufacturers to support British troops during World War II
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1935· 1 entry
Began employing tenanted farmers of the local gentry and independent farmers as producers or transportation workers of the sugar cane for the syndicate in the village of Bhorgaon
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1933· 1 entry
The Governor of Bombay, The Lord Brabourne promoted the production of indigenous sugar, having had increased the import tax on the commodity shipping in from Mauritius
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1932· 1 entry
Agashe was appointed as the Secretary of the Bhor State Council, and in under a year, he was elected to the post of Vice President in 1933, and then the President of the council in 1934, a post he maintained until the ac
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1927· 1 entry
And 1947, having been a patron of the institute since 1945
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1914· 1 entry
Agashe married Dwarka Gokhale, the eldest daughter of Narayan Gokhale from the aristocratic Gokhale gharana of Dharwad
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1905· 1 entry
At the age of 17, and later graduated with a Bachelor of Arts from Fergusson College in 1914, at the age of 26
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1899· 1 entry
Agashe was meant to inherit the ancestral estate at age 11; but due to his youth, his paternal relatives unlawfully seized the lands, and ousted Agashe's mother and her children from the family home
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1888· 1 entry
Born 1888-02-14.
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