Shankarrao Kharat
Shankar Ramchandra Kharat (11 July 1921 – 9 April 2001) was a Marathi writer from Maharashtra, India.[1]
Kharat was born in Atpadi, the secondary capital of the former princely state of Aundh, now in Sangli district. As an adult, he converted to Buddhism.[2]
Kharat was associated with B. R. Ambedkar.[1] He served for some years as the vice-chancellor of Marathwada University.[3] and as a member of the Maharashtra Legislative Council.[citation needed]
In his writings, Kharat mainly wrote about the life experiences of people from the Dalit community.[4][5]
References
- ^ a b The Tribune, Chandigarh, India - Nation
- ^ Eleanor Zelliot, Maxine Berntsen, The Experience of Hinduism: Essays on Religion in Maharashtra (1988), p. 347.
- ^ Dalit Autobiographical Narratives Archived 2007-01-27 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Debjani Ganguly, Caste, Colonialism and Counter-modernity (2005), p. 179.
- ^ 558 Anupama Rao, Representing Dalit selfhood
- Nalini Natarajan, Emmanuel Sampath Nelson, Handbook of Twentieth-century Literatures of India (1996), p. 368