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Namdeo Dhasal
Indian writer
Namdeo Laxman Dhasal (15 February 1949 – 15 January 2014) was a Marathi poet, writer and Dalit activist from Maharashtra, India.
He was one of the founders of the Dalit Panthers in 1972, a social movement aimed at destroying caste hierarchy in Indian society.
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The movement was active in the 1970s and the 1980s during which time it popularised the usage of the term dalit in India. Dhasal was awarded the Padma Shri in 1999[1] and a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Sahitya Akademi in 2004.
Biography
Namdeo Dhasal was born in 1949, in the village of Pur in Khed taluka, Poona, India. He and his family moved to Mumbai when he was six. A member of the Mahar caste, he grew up in dire poverty.[2] He was a Buddhist.[3]
Following the example of the American Black Panther movement, he founded the Dalit Panther movement with friends in 1972.
This social movement worked for the reconstruction of society on the basis of the Ph