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[[File:Sakharam Arjun.jpg|thumb|Portrait from the archives of the Acworth Leprosy Hospital]]<br />
'''Sakharam Arjun''' (sometimes '''Sakharam Arjun Ravut''' in official documents<ref>[https://archive.org/stream/universitycalend188384bombuoft#page/200/mode/2up/ Bombay University Calendar for the year 1883-4. p. 200]</ref> but he did not use the [[caste]]-linked surname in publications) (1839-16 April 1885) was an eminent physician and social activist in Bombay. An expert on Indian medicinal plants, he was one of the two Indian founding members of the [[Bombay Natural History Society]].<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Millard W. S. (1932)|title=The founders of the Bombay Natural History Society.|url=https://archive.org/stream/journalofbomb35121931bomb#page/196/mode/2up|journal=Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society|volume= 35. No. 1 & 2|pages=196–197}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal|author=Reuben, Rachel|year=2005|title=The Indian Founders|journal=Hornbill|issue=April–June|pages=13–15}}</ref> He was the step-father of the pioneering woman physician [[Rukhmabai]] (1864-1955) after he married her widowed mother Jayantibai.<br />
== Biography ==<br />
[[File:Bombay_drugs.jpg|thumb|left|upright|Cover of the 1879 ''Catalogue of the Bombay Drugs'']]<br />
Arjun studied at Elphinstone Institution and joined [[Grant Medical College]] as a Stipendiary Student in 1858. His tutor was Narayan Daji, brother of [[Bhau Daji]]. Arjun received a Licentiate of Medicine from the Bombay University in 1863.<ref>[https://archive.org/stream/universitycalend188687bombuoft#page/292/mode/2up/ The Bombay University Calendar for the year 1886-87. p. 293.]</ref> He joined to teach medical botany and was made an assistant, the first Indian in the position, to William Guyer Hunter. He worked at the Jamsetjee Jeejeebhoy Hospital and was for sometime in charge of the ward for incurables.<ref>[https://archive.org/stream/b22320313#page/56/mode/2up/ Abstract of the Report of the Leprosy Commission in India 1893. p. 57.]</ref> He conducted experiments on the therapeutic value of oils like [[Hydnocarpus wightiana|chaulmoogra]] and cashew nut in the treatment of leprosy. He was later appointed Assistant Surgeon. Sakharam was interested in public education on health and published ''Vaidyatatva'' (1869), ''Garbhavidya va Prasutikaran'' (1873), ''Vivahavidnyan'' (1877) among others. He also subscribed to ''The Theosophist'' writing a note on ''Physiology of Marriage'' in 1880.(p.&nbsp;186) Sakharam Arjun married Jayantibai, the widow of Janardhan Pandurang, and supported his step-daughter Rukhmabai who was married as a child and refused to go to live with her husband. This led to a landmark court case and Rukhmabai later went to study medicine in London (with the assistance of others like [[Edith Pechey Phipson]]) to become one of the first Indian women doctors. In 1883, Sakharam Arjun was one of two Indians (the other being [[Atmaram Pandurang]]) to found the [[Bombay Natural History Society]].<ref>{{cite journal|url= http://www.insa.nic.in/writereaddata/UpLoadedFiles/IJHS/Vol39_3_3_ASDhumatkar.pdf|author=Dhumatkar, Abhida S.|year=2004| journal=Indian Journal of History of Science| volume=39| issue=3| pages=307–334| title=Balaji Prabhakar Modak - A nineteenth century science propagator in Maharashtra}}</ref> Arjun had been one of the presidents of the Bombay Medical Union.<ref>{{cite news|date=25 February 1909|title=Bombay Medical Union|page=9|newspaper=The Times of India}}</ref> Sakharam Arjun died before the Rakhmabai case came to an end.<ref>{{cite book|doi=10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195695731.003.0001|chapter=Rukhmabai and Her Case|publisher=Oxford University Press|author=Chandra, Sudhir|title=Enslaved Daughters|year=2008|pages=15–41|isbn=9780195695731|editor=Chandra, Sudhir}}</ref> He died on 16 April 1885 leaving Jayantibai (died 10 January 1904) and three sons from his first marriage, Vasantrao, Yeshwantrao and Raghunathrao.<ref>[https://indiankanoon.org/doc/574655/ AIR 1988 Bom 321, 1988 - Vaman Ganpatrao Trilokekar and others vs Malati Ramchandra Raut And others on 18 November 1987 - Bombay High Court]</ref><br />
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==References==<br />
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==External links ==<br />
* [https://archive.org/details/b20415540 Sakharam Arjun 1879 Catalogue of the Bombay drugs: including a list of the medicinal plants of Bombay used in the fresh state.]<br />
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20160911051452/http://www.theacworthleprosymuseum.org/SAKHARAMARJUN2R.gif Life sketch]<br />
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