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G.N. Sahasrabudhe, a Brahman of the Social Service League, and Surendranath Tipnis, another CKP who was president of the Mahad municipality; Chitre and Tipnis were later to be elected as MLAs in Ambedkar's Independent Labour Party, while Sahasrabudhe went on to become the editor of Ambedkar's weekly Janata.
- ↑ Shailaja Paik (11 July 2014). Dalit Women's Education in Modern India: Double Discrimination. ISBN 9781317673309.
- ↑ Jayashree Gokhale (1993). From Concessions to Confrontation: The Politics of an Indian Untouchable Community. popular prakashan. p. 91.
...satyagraha was the Samata Sangh (Equality League), an association founded by Ambedkar in 1926-27. The leadership of the Samata Sangh was largely upper caste-Hindu, and included some leaders of the non-Brahman movement in Maharashtra. Indeed it was through the help of Surendranath Tipnis (later known as Dalitmitra Nanasaheb Tipnis), a major caste Hindu lieutenant of Ambedkar, that the Depressed Classes Conference was convened From Self-Reform to Satyagraha
- ↑ Chatterjee, N. (2011). The Making of Indian Secularism: Empire, Law and Christianity, 1830-1960. p. 66. ISBN 9780230298088.