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&amp;#039;&amp;#039;&amp;#039;Datta Ganpat Bhagat&amp;#039;&amp;#039;&amp;#039; (born 13 June 1945 in Waghi village of [[Nanded district]], [[Maharashtra]]) is an Indian [[Marathi people|Marathi]] [[playwright]], [[B. R. Ambedkar|Ambedkarite]] thinker and one of the leaders of the [[Dalit]] theater movement in Marathi. He is a professor of [[Marathi language|Marathi]] at the [[Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar Marathwada University]] in [[Aurangabad]], [[Maharashtra]].&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;https://www.forwardpress.in/2017/08/dalit-rangmanch-aur-ambedkar/&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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His play &amp;#039;&amp;#039;Avart&amp;#039;&amp;#039; (whirlpool) was critically acclaimed for its use of the traditional forms of dindi and [[tamasha]] to reflect on Dalit oppression against the background of a pilgrimage to [[Pandharpur]].&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;{{cite journal|author=Joya John |title=Plays of Datta Bhagat |journal=[[Muse India]] |issue=21 |date=September 2008 |url=http://www.museindia.com/showfocus10.asp?id=1030 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20100104135355/http://museindia.com/showfocus10.asp?id=1030 |archivedate=2010-01-04 }}&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt; His other play &amp;#039;&amp;#039;Wata Palwata&amp;#039;&amp;#039; (Routes and Escapes) is also well known and included in the collection of Indian plays Drama Contemporary by Erin B Mee. It is considered to be &amp;#039;a milestone in Marathi theater&amp;#039;.&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;{{cite book|author=Gabrielle H Cody and Evert Sprinchorn|title=The Columbia Encyclopedia of Modern Drama|volume=2|location=New York|publisher=Columbia University Press|year=2007}}&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
He is also noted for his literary criticism, particularly the essay &amp;#039;&amp;#039;Dalit chetna aur Marathi Dalit Rangmanch&amp;#039;&amp;#039; (Dalit consciousness and Marathi Dalit theater).&lt;br /&gt;
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		<author><name>&gt;Le Deluge</name></author>
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