B. T. Ranadive: Difference between revisions

{{Short description|Indian politician (1904-1990)}}

| image              = File:B.T.Ranadive.jpg

| birth_place        = [[Dadar]], [[Bombay Presidency]], [[British India]]

| party              = [[Communist Party of India (Marxist)]] (1964–1990),<br/>[[Communist Party of India]] (before 1964)

| honorific_prefix    = [[Comrade]]

| known_for          = Co-founder of [[Communist Party of India (Marxist)]]

{{Indcom}}'''Bhalchandra Trimbak Ranadive''' ({{IPAc-en|r|ɑː|n|ə|ˈ|d|iː|v|eɪ}}; 19 December 1904 &ndash; 6 April 1990), popularly known as '''BTR''', was an Indian [[communist]] politician and trade union leader.

[[File:Kerala2006 (12).JPG|thumb|170px|BTR memorial in [[Allepey]]]]He was elder brother of [[Ahilya Rangnekar]], a CPI-M leader and 6th Lok Sabha member from [[Mumbai North Central (Lok Sabha constituency)]]. They belonged to a Marathi [[Chandraseniya Kayastha Prabhu]](CKP) family but Ranadive, a brilliant student, would teach Dalit students in his spare time. His nephew [[Vivek Ranadivé]] is also settled in the USA and is the multimillionaire co-owner of the [[Sacramento Kings]] basketball team.<ref>{{cite magazine|title=Red Salute To Comrade Ahilya|url=https://archives.peoplesdemocracy.in/2009/0426_pd/04262009_4.htm|publisher=People's Democracy(weekly)-Vol. XXXIII,No. 16, April 26, 2009|quote=Ahilya Rangnekar was born in Pune in 1922 in a Chandrasena Kayastha Prabhu family. Her father Trimbak Ranadive was deeply influenced by the social reformers of his times...(she was a trained classical singer, and had a lovely voice which she had often used in street performances to sell the Party paper on Bombay’s streets along with her more well-known brother, the radical communist leader and trade union fighter, B T Ranadive}}</ref><ref>{{cite magazine|title=sactown magazine|url=http://www.sactownmag.com/October-November-2013/The-New-King/index.php?cparticle=2&siarticle=1|quote=She strongly believed that Ranadivés had an obligation to fight for social justice because of their caste (the Hindu designation of social rank). The family is Kshatriya—born to be warriors and rulers}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|title=Silicon Valley hotshot scripts NBA plan for India|url=https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/silicon-valley-hotshot-scripts-nba-plan-for-india/articleshow/7080699.cms|quote=Finally, when asked about his memories of his grand uncle, the late Indian communist leader BT Ranadivé, he says laughing, "I know he wanted to make people's lives better, which is what I also want to do, but in a different way."}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|author=Parvati Menon|title=Breaking Barriers: Stories of Twelve Women|publisher=LeftWord Books|year=2004|page=10|quote="My family was from the Chandrasena Kayastha Prabhu community, popularly called the CKP community, from which a large number of the social reformers came." Ahilya recalls an event that took place in Malad, where a big satyagraha was organized against untouchability. "My father, although a government servant, gave this campaign all his support.My brother B.T. Ranadive, who was a brilliant student, used to tutor dalit boys when he was at University,..."}}</ref>