Career
Born to a family belonging to the Bhatia or trading caste of western India, he was repudiated by his family because of his views on widow remarriage. After a visit to England on business in connection with the cotton trade, which was not successful and brought on him excommunication from his caste, he was appointed in 1874 to administer a native state in Kathiawar during the minority of the chief He died there in August 1875.
See History of the Section(s) of Maharajas or Wallabhacharyas of Western India (1865).