Narayan Sheshadri

Narayan Sheshadri, a Deccani Brahmin educated in Bombay, was baptised in 1843 and gave his life to preaching among the Marathi people and to rescuing outcaste and famine-struck families. His long labour earned him the affectionate title “Apostle of the Marathas.”

Nineteenth-century memoirs of his life — public domain.