Gangadhar Nilkanth Sahasrabuddhe
Gangadhar Nilkanth Sahasrabuddhe was a social activist. 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 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]
References
- ^ 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.
- ^ Shailaja Paik. Dalit Women's Education in Modern India: Double Discrimination.
- ^ Omvedt, Gail. Dalits and the Democratic Revolution: Dr Ambedkar and the Dalit Movement in Colonial India. p. 138.
- ^ Arundhati Roy. 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.
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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