This morphed into the Deccan Education Society in 1884 with support from others such as Agarkar and Gokhale.
Rajashri Shahu of Kolhapur, at the time 10 years old, was named President. It was a honorary designation.
Kolhapur itself was under a British Regency at the time.
Chhatrapati Shahu was only a child of ten. Leave alone decisions to start a college in Pune, even decisions in Kolhapur were being taken by a British Regent (well obviously)
This doens't take away from his glorious reign but let's not attribute something which never happened.
Early on, he built masjid, he employed Muslims, he gave grant to dargahs..
And then
He carried a Vishnu Murti for his coronation.
He demoted Qazis to juniormost officials
He ensured no Muslim was part of his Ministry
...
He took 700 Pathana from Bijapur, but...
Just a few years before he died, he asked his brother " Turki fauzet thev liyas Jai milto kaisa ?"
Let's have consistency.
You cannot celebrate the Chhatrapati Shivaji who employed Nur Beg for 5 years, and ignore the Shivaji Maharaj who found no place for a Nur Beg for the next twenty.