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{{Infobox person<br />
| name = Tukdoji Maharaj<br />
| image = Tukdoji Maharaj 1995 stamp of India.jpg<br />
| image_size = 240px<br />
| caption = Tukdoji Maharaj on a 1995 stamp of India<br />
| birth_name = Manikdev Banduji Ingale (Bhaat)<br />
| birth_date = {{Birth date|df=yes|1909|04|30}}<br />
| birth_place = Yawali (Shahid), [[Amravati]], [[Maharashtra]]<br />
| death_date = {{Death date and age|df=yes|1968|10|11|1909|04|30}}<br />
| death_place = [[Gurukunj Ashram]], Amravati, India<br />
| nationality = Indian<br />
| other_names = Rashtrasant<br />
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| notable_works = [[Gramgeeta]], Geeta Prasad<br />
| title = Rashtrasant<br />
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[[File:Tukdoji Maharaj Square, Nagpur.jpg|thumb|Statue of Tukdoji Maharaj at [[Nagpur]]]]<br />
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'''Manikdev Banduji Ingale''' ('''Tukdoji Maharaj''') (30 April 1909 – 11 October 1968) was a spiritual saint from [[Maharashtra]], [[India]]. He was born in 1909 in a poor family in the village of Yavali in [[Amravati District]] of [[Maharashtra]]. He was a disciple of [[Aadkoji Maharaj]]. Tukdoji Maharaj was involved in social reforms in the rural regions of Maharashtra, including construction of roads.{{cn|date=August 2018}} He wrote ''[[Gramgeeta]]'' which describes means for village development. Many of the development programs started by him have continued to work efficiently after his death. He was once even claimed as a mad by one of the British officers.<br />
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Tukdoji Maharaj once attended a ''World Religions and World Peace Conference'' in [[Japan]].<br />
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==Biography==<br />
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Saint Tukdoji Maharaj was born in [[Yawal]], [[Maharashtra]]. He received spiritual initiation from Samarth Adkoji Maharaj of Warkhed gram. Early in childhood, Saint Tukdoji Maharaj performed rigorous penance and spiritual exercises in self-realisation. He also was a great orator and a musician who composed more than 3000 bhajans (spiritual poems) in Hindi and Marathi, having performed for the spiritual teacher [[Meher Baba]] in 1937<ref>Kalchuri, Bhau (1986). ''Meher Prabhu: Lord Meher''. Myrtle Beach: Manifestation, Inc. '''7'''. p. 2255.</ref> and 1944.<ref>Kalchuri, Bhau (1986). ''Meher Prabhu: Lord Meher''. Myrtle Beach: Manifestation, Inc. '''7'''. p. 2986.</ref> He has also written many articles on Dharma, society, nation and education.<br />
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He studied the existing religious sects and other schools of thought and discussed religious and secular problems of the devotees. He was determined to re-define socio-Spirituality and revitalise and awaken the nation.<br />
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== Work ==<br />
In 1941, Tukdoji Maharaj performed individual acts of civil resistance, so-called [[satyagraha]], and took part in the mass upsurge of the '[[Quit India]]' movement. He was arrested in 1942 and was imprisoned in Nagpur and Raipur Central Jails. When India had become independent, he concentrated on rural reconstruction, establishing the 'All India Shri Gurudev Seva Mandal' and developing programmes for integrated rural development. [[Rajendra Prasad]], who was the first President of India, bestowed the title of 'Rashtrasant'{{explain|date=October 2020}} on him.<br />
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He took part in [[Acharya Vinoba Bhave]]'s land reform movement, known as the [[Bhoodan Movement]], and he worked with relief aid at the time of the [[Bengal famine of 1943|Bengal famine]] in 1945{{clarify|date=October 2020}}<!-- is 1945 correct? -->, at the time of the [[Sino-Indian War]] in 1962, and the [[Koyna earthquake]] in 1967.<br />
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He attended the World Conference of Religion and World Peace in Japan in 1955. <br />
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He was one of the founding Vice Presidents of [[Vishwa Hindu Parishad]].{{cn|date=March 2021}}<br />
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He died on 11 October 1968.<br />
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Rastrasant tukdoji maharaj born at yawali.<br />
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== Honors ==<br />
In 2005, the Nagpur University was renamed to [[Rashtrasant Tukadoji Maharaj Nagpur University]]. The postal department of India issued a commemorative stamp in his name in 1993.<br />
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== Books written ==<br />
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* ''[[Gramgeeta]]'' (in Marathi; later translated by others in English, Hindi, Urdu, Gujrati, and Sanskrit.)<br />
* ''Sartha Anandamrut''<br />
* ''Sartha Atmaprabhav''<br />
* ''Geeta Prasad''<br />
* ''Bodhamrut''<br />
* ''Laharki Barkha'' Part 1, 2 & 3<br />
* ''Anubhav Prakash'' Part 1, 2 and 3<br />
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== Popular culture ==<br />
* A short documentary depicting Maharaj was written and produced by Manoj Bhishnurkar.{{cn|date=April 2017}}<br />
*''Jeevanyogi'', his biography, was written and published by his follower Sudam Sawarkar in the year 1990.{{cn|date=April 2017}}<br />
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==See also==<br />
*[[Rashtrasant Tukadoji Maharaj Nagpur University]]<br />
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==References==<br />
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==External links==<br />
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* [http://www.gramgeeta.org Official website of Tukdoji Maharaj]<br />
* [https://www.tukdyadas.in Official website of Rashtrasant Tukdoji Maharaj by Shri Sunilbhau Gainkar,Gurudev Seva Mandal, Wardha]<br />
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[[Category:20th-century Hindu religious leaders]]<br />
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[[Category:Indian independence activists from Maharashtra]]<br />
[[Category:People from Amravati district]]</div>2409:4042:4E9B:F072:1D4A:2989:82E4:BC56