Who established the Indian Women's University at Pune in 1916 A.D.?

India's early social-reform movements each produced specific reformers linked to specific institutions promoting women's education and abolishing regressive customs; correctly attributing a university to its founder means matching the person to the institution they actually built, not just to “a social reformer of that era”.

Maharshi Dhondo Keshav Karve (D. K. Karve), a lifelong campaigner for women's education and widow remarriage, established the Indian Women's University at Pune in 1916. Following Sir Vithaldas Thackersey's donation in 1920, it was renamed SNDT Women's University, and its headquarters moved to Mumbai in 1936, which is why it is widely known today as a Mumbai institution even though it began at Pune.

• Aatma Ram Pandurang founded the Prarthana Samaj in 1867, a Hindu socio-religious reform organisation based in Bombay.

• Mahadev Govind Ranade co-founded the Prarthana Samaj in 1867 and worked through the Widow Marriage Association to promote widow remarriage.

• Keshav Chandra Sen led the Brahmo Samaj of India, founded in 1866, and established reform bodies based in Bengal.

D. K. Karve's founding of this university in 1916 is the specific historical fact the question tests.