Gaorishankar Udayashankar, G.S.I., Ex-Minister of Bhavnagar, Now In
B II A V N A G A II ARTHUR PROBSTHAIN Oriental Bookseller 41 Gt. Runel! Street LONDO N. W.C. I UCS0 LIBRARY liAORISHAMAR UDAYASHANKAR, C.S.I., NOW IN RETIREMENT AS A SANYiSI. JAVERILAL UMIAHANKAR YAJNIK. Lives of great men all remind us We can make our lives sublime ; And, departing, leave behind us Footprints on the sands of time. LONGFELLOW. o b a : $ m ]t PRINTED AT THP: EDUCATION SOCIETY'S PRESS, BYCULLA. INTRODUCTORY NOTE. FOR some time past it has been felt by the friends of Mr. Gaorishankar, European as well as Native, that it would be" desirable to have some record of his life and work. In compliance with this desire, I undertook to compile a short account of him from such materials as were available to me. These were not so full and ample as I could have desired. They were wanting in that essential element which gives its chief interest to a work of biography, namely, private correspondence. On this account nobody is more sensible than I am of the imperfect nature of the present sketch, and my only reason for permitting its publication is that it is better to have some record, however wanting in fulness, of the work done by the first living statesman of Kathiawad, now in retirement as a Sanyasi, than to have none at all. Since writing this sketch, however, I am glad to say that my friends, Messrs. Vajeshankar and Prabhashankar, the two worthy sons of Mr. Gaorishankar, have, at my suggestion, undertaken to arrange systematically the whole of the correspondence, records, and papers, in in of the English and Gujarat i, which are the possession family, and may serve to elucidate the career of their illustrious father.
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