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• A museum, dedicated to Gopal Krishna Gokhale, will come up on the campus of Gokhale Institute of Politics and Economics (GIPE).
• The museum has a special link to the eminent social leader — it will be located in the house where Gokhale lived in the early 1900s.
• Pune is home to several museums dedicated to national leaders and freedom fighters, such as Mahatma Gandhi and Mahatma Jyotiba Phule, among others
Gopal Krishna Gokhale
• Gokhale, one of the prominent names in India’s freedom struggle. Along with being a member of the Indian National Congress (INC), he also taught at the Fergusson College after graduating in 1884.
• Under the guidance of his mentor Mahadev Govind Ranade, he was instrumental in establishing the Servants of India Society (SIS) in 1905.
• He was founder of the Deccan Sabha in 1896
• He was exposed to western political thought and became a great admirer of theorists such as John Stuart Mill and Edmund Burke
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