Gangadhar Nilkanth Sahasrabuddhe

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Gangadhar Nilkanth Sahasrabuddhe was an Indian social activist from Maharashtra. He was born in a Marathi Chitpawan Brahmin family and belonged to the Social Service League. [1] Along with other activists - Surendranath Tipnis, chairman of the Mahad Municipality and A.V. Chitre, he was instrumental in helping Babasaheb Ambedkar during the Mahad Satyagraha. During the satyagraha he burnt the book Manusmriti . Later, he went on to become the editor of Ambedkar's weekly 'Janata'. [2] [3] [4]

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  1. ↑ Krishan, Shri (2005). Political Mobilization and Identity in Western India, 1934-47. SAGE Publications. p. 200. ISBN   0-7619-3341-7 . Retrieved 28 May 2018.
  2. ↑ Shailaja Paik (11 July 2014). Dalit Women's Education in Modern India: Double Discrimination. ISBN   9781317673309.
  3. ↑ Omvedt, Gail (30 January 1994). Dalits and the Democratic Revolution: Dr Ambedkar and the Dalit Movement in Colonial India. p. 138. ISBN   9788132119838.
  4. ↑ Arundhati Roy (May 2017). The Doctor and the Saint: Caste, Race, and Annihilation of Caste, the Debate Between B.R. Ambedkar and M.K. Gandhi. Haymarket Books. p. 129. ISBN   9781608467983. According to Teltumbde, "There was a deliberate attempt to get some progressive people from non-untouchable communities to the conference, but eventually only two names materialised. One was Gangadhar Nilkanth Sahasrabuddhe, One was Gangadhar Nilkanth Sahasrabuddhe, an activist of the Social Service League and a leader of the cooperative movement belonging to the Agarkari Brahman caste, and the other was Vinayak alias Bhai Chitre, a Chandraseniya Kayastha Prabhu. In the 1940s, Shasrabuddhe became the editor of Janata—another of Ambedkar's newspapers.
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