During the 19th century, 'Satapatra Series' was written by G.H. Deshmukh. Gopal Hari Deshmukh was an Indian activist, thinker, social reformer and writer from Maharashtra. His original surname was Shidhaye. Because of 'Vatan' (i.e. the right of Tax collection) that the family had received, the family was later called Deshmukh. Deshmukh is regarded as a prominent figure of the Social Reform Movement in Maharashtra. At age 25, G.H. Deshmukh started writing articles aimed at social reform in Maharashtra in the weekly Prabhakar under the pen name Lokhitawadi. In the initial two years, he penned 108 articles on the social reform. All those group of articles has come to be known in the Marathi literature as Lokhitawadinchi Shatapatre. He promoted emancipation (i.e. liberation) and education of women and wrote against the arranged child marriages, dowry system, and polygamy, all of which were prevalent in India in his times. He also wrote against the evils of the caste system which was strongly prevalent in India in his times, condemned the harmful Hindu religious orthodoxy, and attacked the monopoly in the religious matters and rituals which Brahmin priests had through the long tradition (Deshmukh, himself, belonged to the Brahmin caste). He enunciated certain 15 principles for bringing about religious reform in Hindu society.