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{{Infobox person
| name = Vitthal Laxman Phadke
| birth_place = [[Maharashtra]], [[British India]]
| othername = Mamasaheb Phadke
| occupation = Social worker
| awards = [[Padma Bhushan]]
}}
'''Vitthal Laxman Phadke''', better known as '''Mamasaheb Phadke''', was an Indian social worker, writer and [[Gandhian]], known for his [[sanitation]] services to the rural areas in [[British India]].<ref name="Road to Freedom: A Sociological Study on the Abolition of Scavenging in India">{{cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2A13gSHm770C&pg=PA40 | title=Road to Freedom: A Sociological Study on the Abolition of Scavenging in India | publisher=Motilal Banarsidass Publishers | author=Bindeshwar Pathak | year=1999 | pages=254 | isbn=9788120812581}}</ref> He was one among the leaders of the Sanitation Brigade, comprising 1200 volunteers, set up by the 1938 [[Haripura]] session of the [[Indian National Congress — Freedom Era|Indian National Congress]].<ref name="The Selected Works of Subhash Chandra Bose: 1936-1946, Volume 3">{{cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=tpsHim-sncAC&pg=PA140 | title=The Selected Works of Subhash Chandra Bose: 1936-1946, Volume 3 | publisher=Atlantic Publishers | year=1992 | pages=232 | isbn=9788171563197}}</ref> The [[Government of India]] awarded him its third-highest civilian honour, the [[Padma Bhushan]], in 1969, 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=January 3, 2016}}</ref>

Phadke wrote an autobiography, ''Mari Jeevan Katha'' (The Story of My Life), published by [[Navajivan Trust]], a publishing house founded by [[Mahatma Gandhi]].<ref name="Mari Jeevan Katha">{{cite book | title=Mari Jeevan Katha | publisher=Navajivan Trust | author=Mamasaheb Phadke | year=2009 | pages=215 | isbn=978-8172293963}}</ref>

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