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<div>{{short description|Indian independence activist, Gandhian and social worker}}<br />
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{{Infobox person<br />
| name = Narayan Sadoba Kajrolkar<br />
| birth_place = [[Maharashtra]], India<br />
| occupation = Social worker<br>[[Indian independence activist]]<br />
| awards = [[Padma Bhushan]]<br />
}}<br />
'''Narayan Sadoba Kajrolkar ''' was an [[Indian independence activist]], [[Gandhian]]{{Citation needed|date=December 2024}} and social worker, best known as the man who defeated [[B. R. Ambedkar]] in a general election.<ref name="The first Lok Sabha elections (1951-52)">{{cite web | url=http://indianexpress.com/article/india/politics/once-upon-a-poll-the-first-lok-sabha-elections-1951-52/ | title=The first Lok Sabha elections (1951–52) | publisher=Indian Express | date=27 March 2014 | access-date=26 March 2016}}</ref> A [[Marathi people|Marathi]] by birth, he served as a personal assistant to Ambedkar,<ref name="B. R. Ambedkar">{{cite web | url=http://www.timesofmaharashtra.com/dr-ambedkar/ | title=B. R. Ambedkar | publisher=Times of Maharashtra | date=14 November 2014 | access-date=26 March 2016 | archive-date=5 April 2016 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160405222951/http://www.timesofmaharashtra.com/dr-ambedkar/ | url-status=dead }}</ref> before contesting against him in the [[Indian general election, 1951–52|first Lok Sabha elections]] from the [[Mumbai North Central (Lok Sabha constituency)|Mumbai North Central constituency]] in 1952 and defeated the latter by over 15000 votes.<ref name="Gita Press and the Making of Hindu India">{{cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=BOhrCgAAQBAJ&q=Narayan+Sadoba+Kajrolkar&pg=PT271 | title=Gita Press and the Making of Hindu India | publisher=HarperCollins Publishers India | author=Akshaya Mukul | year=2015 | pages=552 | isbn=9789351772316}}</ref> He was also elected from the same constituency for a second time in the 1962 elections.<ref name="Members of the Third Lok Sabha">{{cite web | url=http://www.empoweringindia.org/new/preview.aspx?candid=493133&p=p&cid=3 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160407221306/http://www.empoweringindia.org/new/preview.aspx?candid=493133&p=p&cid=3 | url-status=usurped | archive-date=7 April 2016 | title=Members of the Third Lok Sabha | publisher=Empowering India | date=2016 | access-date=26 March 2016}}</ref><br />
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Narayan, who was born in the [[Chamar]] caste, was a member of the first ''[[Kalelkar Commission|Backward Classes Commission]]'' of 1953, representing the [[Scheduled Caste]] communities.<ref name="India's Silent Revolution: The Rise of the Lower Castes in North India">{{cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=OAkW94DtUMAC&q=Narayan+Sadoba+Kajrolkar&pg=PA222 | title=India's Silent Revolution: The Rise of the Lower Castes in North India | publisher=C. Hurst & Co. Publishers | author=Christophe Jaffrelot | year=2003 | pages=505 | isbn=9781850656708}}</ref><ref name="Jawaharlal Nehru, a Biography">{{cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=MUeyUhVGIDMC&q=Narayan+Sadoba+Kajrolkar&pg=PA513 | title=Jawaharlal Nehru, a Biography | publisher=Allied Publishers | author=Sankar Ghose | year=1993 | pages=353 | isbn=9788170233695}}</ref> He was also a member of the ''Dalit Varga Sangha'', an organisation of the people of backward classes and served as the secretary of the committee when they decided to celebrate the birthday of [[Jagjivan Ram]] on 5 April 1953.<ref name="Milestones: A Memoir">{{cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=eYCynd34aIwC&q=Narayan+Sadoba+Kajrolkar&pg=PA156 | title=Milestones: A Memoir | publisher=Penguin Books India | author=Indrani Jagjivan Ram | year=2010 | pages=297 | isbn=9780670081875}}</ref> The Government of India awarded him the third highest civilian honour of the [[Padma Bhushan]], in 1970, for his contributions to society.<ref name="Padma Awards">{{cite web | url=http://mha.nic.in/sites/upload_files/mha/files/LST-PDAWD-2013.pdf | title=Padma Awards | publisher=Ministry of Home Affairs, Government of India | date=2016 | access-date=3 January 2016 | archive-date=15 October 2015 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151015193758/http://mha.nic.in/sites/upload_files/mha/files/LST-PDAWD-2013.pdf | url-status=dead }}</ref> He died in 1983.<ref>{{Cite web | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ZLZVAAAAYAAJ&q=Narayan++Kajrolkar+obituary |title = Indian Parliamentary Companion: Who's who of Members of Lok Sabha|last1 = Lok Sabha|first1 = India. Parliament|year = 2003}}</ref><br />
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== See also ==<br />
* [[Mumbai North Central (Lok Sabha constituency)]]<br />
* [[Kalelkar Commission]]<br />
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