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'''Mohan Ranade''' (25 December 1930<ref name="esakal.com 195688">{{Cite web|url=https://www.esakal.com/pune/senior-freedom-fighter-mohan-ranade-passed-away-195688|title = ज्येष्ठ स्वातंत्र्य सैनिक मोहन रानडे यांचे निधन}}</ref> – 25 June 2019)<ref>[https://wap.business-standard.com/article/pti-stories/freedom-fighter-mohan-ranade-dies-119062500198_1.html Freedom fighter Mohan Ranade dies]</ref> was an [[Indian freedom fighter]] who participated in [[Goa liberation movement]] and spent fourteen years in Portuguese jail.

Ranade was born on 25 December 1930<ref>http://english.svjjs.org/founder-president/</ref> in [[Sangli]] in present

Ranade joined the militant organization, Azad Gomantak dal in 1953.<ref>Risbud, S.S., 2003. Goa's Struggle for Freedom, 1946-1961: The Contribution of National Congress (Goa) and Azad Gomantak Dal (Doctoral dissertation, Goa University). [https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&as_sdt=0%2C39&q=risbud+ranade+goa&btnG=]</ref>  

As a member of the organization, he was involved in the liberation of [[Silvassa]] in 1954. When he went to Goa, he found a job as a teacher in a Marathi school for girls in the village of [[Savoi Verem]]. According to his students, Ranade was a highly motivating Teacher. On Saturdays, he used to conduct student meetings to inculcate a sense of Indian nationalism, and a desire for liberation from colonial rule in them. Ranade also participated in a number of attacks on police and customs outposts, mines to obtain weapons and explosives for his organization. He also participated in the murder of a Goan man who had insulted the tricolor [[Flag of India]]. In October 1955, during an attack on Betim police, he was wounded by the Portuguese police. After recovering from his injuries, he was tried and sentenced in  December 1956  to 26 years of rigorous imprisonment to be served in Portugal.<ref>Raut-Desai, A.A., 2003. Voices in the Liberation Struggle: The Case of Goa (1947-61) (Doctoral dissertation, Goa University).[http://irgu.unigoa.ac.in/drs/bitstream/handle/unigoa/3923/desai_a_a_r_2003.pdf?sequence=1]</ref>

Ranade was arrested by the colonial [[Portugal|Portuguese]] police in 1955. Ranade was tried in Portugal and sentenced to twenty-four years of imprisonment.<ref name="Couto2005">{{cite book|author=Maria Couto|title=Goa: A Daughter's Story|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2QYYjT8-0BIC&pg=PR11|year=2005|publisher=Penguin Books India|isbn=978-0-14-303343-1|page=xvii}}</ref>

He was incarcerated at the Fort of [[Caxias (Oeiras)|Caxias]] near [[Lisbon]] where he was kept in solitary confinement for six years. He was released in January 1969, more than six years after the [[liberation of Goa]] by India in 1962, and having served a total of 14 years in prison. The intervention of the then Tamil Nadu chief minister, [[C. N. Annadurai|Anna Durai]], and [[Pope Paul VI|Pope Paul]] was instrumental in securing his release.<ref>Aldrovandi, C., 2018. A Senda do Dever (Satiche Vaan). InterDISCIPLINARY Journal of Portuguese Diaspora Studies, 7, pp.339-345.</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.newindianexpress.com/nation/2019/jun/25/goa-freedom-fighter-mohan-ranade-who-spent-14-years-in-portuguese-jail-dies-in-pune-1995071.html|title=Goa freedom fighter Mohan Ranade who spent 14 years in Portuguese jail dies in Pune}}</ref>

Ranade was honoured with [[Padma Shri]] in 2001 and with the Sangli Bhushan in 2006.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://news.oneindia.in/2006/04/30/patil-concerned-over-dwindling-girls-population-1146507010.html|title = Patil concerned over dwindling girls' population|date = May 2006}}</ref> He was also awarded the Goa Puraskar in 1986 for his social work.