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'''Gangadhar Nilkanth Sahasrabuddhe''' was an Indian social activist from [[Maharashtra]]. He was born in a Marathi [[Chitpawan Brahmin]] family and belonged to the Social Service League.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Krishan|first1=Shri|title=Political Mobilization and Identity in Western India, 1934-47|date=2005|publisher=[[SAGE Publications]]|isbn=0-7619-3341-7|page=200|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Pn5m7KFhgVEC&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false|accessdate=28 May 2018}}</ref> Along with other activists - [[Surendranath Tipnis]], chairman of the Mahad Municipality and A.V. Chitre, he was instrumental in helping [[B. R. Ambedkar|Babasaheb 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'.<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=uesABAAAQBAJ&pg=PT163#v=onepage&q&f=false|title=Dalit Women's Education in Modern India: Double Discrimination|author=Shailaja Paik}}</ref><ref>{{cite book | title=Dalits and the Democratic Revolution: Dr Ambedkar and the Dalit Movement in Colonial India|last1=Omvedt|first1=Gail|page=138|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=leuICwAAQBAJ&pg=PT138&dq=tipnis+ambedkar#v=onepage&q=tipnis%20ambedkar&f=false}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|title=The Doctor and the Saint: Caste, Race, and Annihilation of Caste, the Debate Between B.R. Ambedkar and M.K. Gandhi|page=129|author=Arundhati Roy|publisher=Haymarket Books|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=w1VeDgAAQBAJ&pg=PT129#v=onepage&q&f=false| quote=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.}}</ref><br />
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