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<tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-deleted"></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div> </div></td></tr>
<tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-deleted"></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>'''Mahantha Devaru Nanjundaswamy''' (13 February <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">1936 – 3 February </ins>2004) was <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">a Gandhian leader, scholar and India's leading </ins>activist<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">, who advocated for the farmers' rights. He is one of the founders of [[Karnataka Rajya Raitha Sangha]] (KRRS) in 1980. He was a prominent </ins>[[Anti-globalization movement|anti-globalization]] campaign leader.<ref <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">name="guardian"</ins>>{{citation|newspaper=[[The Guardian]]|url=https://www.theguardian.com/news/2004/feb/06/guardianobituaries.globalisation|title=MD Nanjundaswamy|first=John|last=Vidal|date=5 February 2004}}</ref></div></td></tr>
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<tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-deleted"></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Nanjundswamy was born in Mysore to </ins>M. N. Mahantha Devaru and Rajammanni. <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">His father was a farmer-turned-lawyer from Madrahalli village in [[Thirumakudalu Narasipura]] taluka, and was a member of the erstwhile Mysore Representative Assembly and later, the [[Karnataka Legislative Assembly]].<ref name="Nanjundaswamy is dead">{{cite news |title=Nanjundaswamy is dead |url=http://www.hindu.com/2004/02/04/stories/2004020402160600.htm |access-date=2 May 2024 |work=The Hindu |date=4 February 2004 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091201125501/http://www.hindu.com/2004/02/04/stories/2004020402160600.htm |archive-date=1 December 2009}}</ref> </ins>He was the fifth child of the couple. He was credited to be the first post<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">-</ins>graduate from <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">[[</ins>Mysore State<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">]]</ins>.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.facebook.com/pages/category/Public-Figure/Prof.M.D.Nanjundaswamy/about/|title=Prof M D Nanjundaswamy|website=www.facebook.com|language=en|access-date=2020-02-21}}</ref> <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">After securing a [[bachelor of science]] degree in Life Sciences from the [[University of Mysore]], he pursued graduation in Law at [[Karnatak University]], but wanted to become a doctor like his brother, who was an ENT specialist. </ins>As <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Nanjundswamy failed to secure a seat in medical studies, his parents sent him abroad to [[the Hague Academy of International Law]] in the Netherlands to complete his post-graduation in Law. Then he went on to study Constitutional Law in Germany and France before returning to Indian in 1964.<ref name="guardian"/> His daughter, Chukki, lives in Mysore and runs Amrita Bhoomi, an agricultural school, started by him.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Agricultural Hero: Chukki Nanjundaswamy |url=https://www.oneearth.org/agricultural-hero-chukki-nanjundaswamy/ |access-date=2024-04-07 |website=One Earth |language=en}}</ref></ins></div></td></tr>
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<tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-deleted"></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Nanjundaswamy began his career as a professor of law at the University of Mysore and later the Dr. Rammanohar Lohia College of Law in Bangalore.<ref name="dh1"/><ref>{{Cite news |last=Vidal |first=John |date=2004-02-06 |title=MD Nanjundaswamy |language=en-GB |work=The Guardian |url=https://www.theguardian.com/news/2004/feb/06/guardianobituaries.globalisation |access-date=2023-04-22 |issn=0261-3077}}</ref> As a [[socialist]], he was involved with the Samajwadi Yuvajana Sabha, and worked in close association with other socialists such as [[Ram Manohar Lohia]] and [[Shantaveri Gopala Gowda]]. In 1975, Nanjundaswamy launched the [[JP Movement]] in Karnataka and founded the Nava Nirmana Kranti, along with former Chief Minister </ins>of <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Karnataka, [[Kadidal Manjappa]], and writer [[Poornachandra Tejaswi]].<ref name="dh1"/></ins></div></td></tr>
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<tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-deleted"></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">In 1980, Nanjundaswamy formed </ins>the [[Karnataka Rajya Raitha Sangha]] (Karnataka State Farmers' Association<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">; KRRS</ins>) <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">in 1980.<ref name="dh1"/> As president of the KRRS, </ins>he led campaigns against agricultural patenting by [[multinational <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">corporation|multi-national </ins>corporation]]s, which he called "Western biopiracy".<ref name=<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">"</ins>assayag2005<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">"</ins>>{{cite book |title=Globalizing India: perspectives from below |chapter=Seeds of Wrath: Agriculture Biotechnology and Globalization |last=Assayag |first=Jackie |editor=Jackie Assayag, Christopher John Fuller |pages=71–73 |year=2005 |publisher=Anthem Press |isbn=978-1-84331-195-9 }}</ref> <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">He was a strong critic of multi-national companies in India and the [[World Trade Organization]] (WTO), and had a hand in the [[1999 Seattle WTO protests]].<ref>{{cite book |last1=Graeber |first1=David |author1-link=David Graeber |title=[[The Democracy Project]] |date=2013 |isbn=9780679646006 |page=186 |publisher=Random House Publishing }}</ref></ins></div></td></tr>
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'''Mahantha Devaru Nanjundaswamy''' (13 February 1936–3 Feb 2004) was an Indian rural activist and [[Anti-globalization movement|anti-globalization]] campaign leader.<ref>{{citation|newspaper=[[The Guardian]]|url=https://www.theguardian.com/news/2004/feb/06/guardianobituaries.globalisation|title=MD Nanjundaswamy|first=John|last=Vidal|date=5 February 2004}}.</ref> His parents were M. N. Mahantha Devaru and Rajammanni. He was the fifth child of the couple and was born in Mysore but his father was from Madrahalli village in T Narsipura taluka. He was credited to be the first post graduate from Mysore State.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.facebook.com/pages/category/Public-Figure/Prof.M.D.Nanjundaswamy/about/|title=Prof M D Nanjundaswamy|website=www.facebook.com|language=en|access-date=2020-02-21}}</ref> As president of the [[Karnataka Rajya Raitha Sangha]] (Karnataka State Farmers' Association) he led campaigns against agricultural patenting by [[multinational corporation]]s, which he called "Western biopiracy".<ref name=assayag2005>{{cite book |title=Globalizing India: perspectives from below |chapter=Seeds of Wrath: Agriculture Biotechnology and Globalization |last=Assayag |first=Jackie |editor=Jackie Assayag, Christopher John Fuller |pages=71–73 |year=2005 |publisher=Anthem Press |isbn=978-1-84331-195-9 }}</ref><br />
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