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{{Infobox officeholder<br />
| name = Pandharinath Sitaramji Patil<br />
| honorific-suffix = [[Member of Parliament|MP]]<br />
| image = Pandharinath Patil Fair Use.jpg<br />
| caption = <br />
| birth_date = {{birth date|1903|9|20|df=y}}<ref name="Chikhali"/><br />
| birth_place = Amboda, Buldana district, Maharashtra<br />
| death_date = {{death date|1978|10|02|df=y}}<ref name="Chikhali"/><br />
| occupation = Politician, social reformer, biographer<br />
| spouse = Saraswati<br />
| office1 = [[Member of Parliament, Rajya Sabha]]<br />
| term_start1 = 3 April 1962<br />
| term_end1 = 2 April 1968<br />
| party = [[Indian National Congress]]<br />
| term_start2 = 3 April 1968<br />
| term_end2 = 2 April 1974<br />
}}<br />
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'''Pandharinath Sitaramji Patil''' (1903-1978) was an Indian social reformer, politician, and activist of the non-Brahmin movement. He was one of the earliest biographer of [[Jyotirao Phule|Jotirao Phule]].<ref>{{cite book |last=O'Hanlon |first=Rosalind |title=Caste, Conflict, and Ideology : Mahatma Jotirao Phule and Low Caste Protest in Nineteenth-Century Western India |publisher=Cambridge University Press |p=309 |year=1985}}</ref><br />
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==Early life==<br />
Patil was born to Radhabai and Sitaram Raut on 20 September 1903 at Amboda in [[Buldana district]] of [[Bombay Presidency]] (now in [[Maharashtra]]). He had his primary education in Marathi in vernacular schools at Pimpri Adhao and [[Chandur Biswa]]. According to traditions of those days, he was married at a young age of nine with Saraswati (née Junare) in 1912.<ref name="Chikhali"/><br />
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He further had his English education at [[Pimpalgaon Kale]] during the years 1917-1919.<ref name="Chikhali">{{cite web |title=Life Sketch - Samajbhusan Dalitmitra Pandharinath S. Patil |url=http://sscchk.webnode.in/about-college/life-sketch-samajbhusan-dalitmitra-pandharinath-s-patil/ |accessdate=2018-01-13 |language=mr |url-status=bot: unknown |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20180113161624/http://sscchk.webnode.in/about-college/life-sketch-samajbhusan-dalitmitra-pandharinath-s-patil/ |archivedate=2018-01-13 }}</ref><br />
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==Social work==<br />
Patil was an active member of non-Brahmin movement in the Buldhana district and was greatly inspired by the work of Jyotirao Phule. He started many schools at various places in the district like Jambhuldhaba, Kinhola, Deulgaon Mahi, Mera, Chandol, etc. He also founded a hostel named after [[Chokhamela]]. He successfully arranged a session of [[Satyashodhak Samaj]] at Amravati in 1925.<ref name="Chikhali"/><br />
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==Political career==<br />
Patil started his political career along with his work in non-Brahman movement. Following the [[Government of India Act 1935]], when elections were held in 1937, he ran the elections as a candidate of non-Brahmin party and won the election against a candidate of [[Indian National Congress]] (Congress).<ref name="Deshpande">{{cite book |last=Deshpande |first=A.K. |title=बुलडाणा जिल्ह्यातील स्वातंत्र्यलढा |place=Mumbai |publisher=ऑगस्ट क्रांती सुवर्ण महोत्सव समिती |p=50 |language=mr}}</ref> He joined the [[Indian National Congress|Congress]] around the [[Quit India movement]] of 1942. He was a member of Central Provinces and Berar assembly from 1937 to 1952.<ref name="RS"/><br />
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After Independence of India, Patil was mostly involved in work in education and agriculture sector. He also took part in [[Samyukta Maharashtra Samiti|United Maharashtra Movement]] in the 1950s.<ref name="Chikhali"/><br />
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Patil was elected to the upper house of Parliament of India, [[Rajya Sabha]], in 1962 and was a member for two terms till 1974.<ref name="RS">{{cite web |url=http://rajyasabha.nic.in/rsnew/pre_member/1952_2003/p.pdf |title=Rajya Sabha Members - Biographical Sketches 1952-2003 |accessdate=2018-01-13}}</ref><br />
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He died on 2 October 1978.<ref name="Chikhali"/><br />
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[[Category:1903 births]]<br />
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[[Category:Satyashodhak Samaj]]<br />
[[Category:Indian National Congress politicians from Maharashtra]]<br />
[[Category:People from Buldhana district]]<br />
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