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'''Shripad Krishna Limaye''' (born 8 December 1909) was an Indian politician and [[trade union]]ist.<ref name="Sabha1961"/> Limaye served as a member of the [[Rajya Sabha]] (upper house of the Indian parliament) from Maharashtra in the 1960s.<br />
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==Communist Party cadre==<br />
Limaye was engaged in the struggle for Indian independence, becoming politically active in 1935. In that year he joined the [[Communist Party of India]].<ref name="Sabha1961"/> He became the foremost leader of the party in [[Poona]], where he recruited and trained many key cadres for the party. Limaye was seen as being close to [[S.A. Dange]].<ref name="Bāpaṭa1992">{{cite book|author=Vāmana Bāpaṭa|title=My Life: The Story of a Crusader|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5fDkAAAAMAAJ|year=1992|publisher=Granthali|page=40}}</ref> However in 1942 he and his group of followers were expelled from the party.<ref name="Institute2004">{{cite book|author=V.V. Giri National Labour Institute|title=Agrarian structure, movements & peasant organisations in India|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=UuJFAAAAYAAJ|year=2004|publisher=V.V. Giri National Labour Institute|isbn=978-81-7827-064-7|page=171}}</ref> The rationale behind the expulsion was Limaye's opposition to support to the British war effort.<ref name="Institute2004"/><br />
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==Navajivan and Lal Nishan==<br />
At the time of the expulsion, Limaye's group counted around 200 men.<ref name="Sadasivan1977"/> In 1943 Limaye's group founded the Navjivan Sangathana ('New Life Organization').<ref name="Institute2004"/> In 1950 the organization, which was led by Limaye and Yashwant Chavan<!-- not to be confused with Y.B. Chavan -->, discussed a possible merger with the [[Peasants and Workers Party of India]] (PWP). The then party leader of the PWP opposed the merger, as he thought that the entry of the Navjivan group would empower his rival Datta Deshmukh within the party.<ref name="Phadke1979">{{cite book|author=Y. D. Phadke|title=Politics and language|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_TFuAAAAMAAJ|year=1979|publisher=Himalaya Pub. House|page=58}}</ref> However, the merger went through and the Navjivan Sangathana members were admitted ''en bloc'' into the PWP.<ref name="Sadasivan1977">{{cite book|author=S. N. Sadasivan|title=Party and democracy in India|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=lJ2KAAAAMAAJ|year=1977|publisher=Tata McGraw-Hill|page=96}}</ref><br />
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The presence of the Limaye group in the PWP sharped the internal divisions inside the PWP. In the end the party was split, with the Limaye group joining the splinter group [[Kamgar Kisan Paksha]]. Soon that party was split as well, on the issue of its relations with the Communist Party. Limaye and Deshmukh did not go along with the merger of the party into the Communist Party, instead they regrouped as the Lal Nishan Gat ('Red Banner Group').<ref name="Sadasivan1977"/> This group would later be known as the [[Lal Nishan Party]].<ref name="Institute2004"/> Limaye served as editor of the periodical ''Lal Nishan''.<ref name="Sabha1961"/><br />
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==Parliamentarian==<br />
Limaye was elected to the Rajya Sabha in April 1960.<ref name="Sabha1961"/> After being elected, he immediately joined the communist parliamentary group.<ref name="Basu1997">{{cite book|author=Jyoti Basu|title=Documents of the Communist Movement in India: 1957-1961|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=W6vaAAAAMAAJ|year=1997|publisher=National Book Agency|isbn=978-81-7626-008-4|page=529}}</ref> In 1962, as the [[Sino-Indian war]] broke out, Limaye was arrested and put in preventive detention just before a parliamentary session.<ref>''La Vanguardia''. ''[http://hemeroteca.lavanguardia.com/preview/1962/11/09/pagina-12/32716973/pdf.html Nehru: <<La India nunca se sometera>>]''</ref><br />
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==Personal life==<br />
Born in [[Sangli]], S.K. Limaye was the son of Krishna Govind Limaye. He studied at Fergusson College in [[Poona]]. As of the 1960s, the resided in the [[Byculla]] neighbourhood of Bombay.<ref name="Sabha1961">{{cite book|author=India. Parliament. Rajya Sabha|title=Who's who, Vol. 5|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=JjwEAAAAMAAJ|year=1961|publisher=Rajya Sabha Secretariat.|page=144}}</ref><br />
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==Bibliography==<br />
*Limaye, S. K. ''[https://books.google.com/books/about/An_Inevitable_Review_of_Certain_Aspects.html?id=rl3hGwAACAAJ&redir_esc=y An Inevitable Review of Certain Aspects of the Policies of the Indian Communist Leadership]''. [Poona, India]: Navajeevan Sanghtana (United Maharashtra), 1949.<br />
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