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Bharat Patankar (Marathi: ') is a leading activist (cofounder and President) of the left wing Shramik Mukti Dal and of the peasant movement in Maharashtra. Bharat Patankar is an activist intellectual who has worked for almost 40 years in movements of workers, farmers, dam evictees, agricultural laborers, the drought eradication movement, alternative cultural movement, women’s liberation movement, anti-SEZ and coal-based power plant movement based on alternative energy proposals, rights of farmers on windmills, and radical anti-caste movements. He is married to writer and activist, Gail Omvedt. ==Early life== Date of birth: 5 September 1949 Bharat Patankar was born in a village called (Kasegoan ), near Satara and Kolhapur Kolhapur in the State of Maharashtra in India. He comes from land laborer/ farmer family and grew up working on the family farm in rural India. He is the son of famous freedom fighters Babuji Patankar and Indumati Patankar, both of whom were leading activists in the ‘Prati Sarkar’ or the parallel government movement that was part of the India’s independence movement in the Satara District in the 1940s. The core of the prati sarkar lay in the one hundred or so underground activists – those who left their homes, moved from village to village serving as full timers, carrying guns or other weapons, ready to confront the police if necessary and carrying out "constructive" as well as military and administrative tasks. They were organized into groups which were effective decision-making centers for most activity. Representatives of all groups met from time to time at the district level. At the village level, these activists moved to establish various structures that included volunteer squads and to some extent panch committees chosen or elected by the villagers themselves. This village structure developed only with the movement itself in late 1944 and 1945. Babuji and Indumati Patankar established the Kasegaon Education Society and the first High School in Kasegaon called Azad Vidyalaya (Azad Vidyalaya ). He received MD in Gynecology. He has been a full-time activist since 1973. He has participated in numerous movements since then and has led many struggles from ''urban textile workers to rural farmers and laborers fighting for equal water and land rights''. He had been a close associate of Dalit Panther activists in early period as part of the then-existing Magowa group. In the second phase of Dalit Panthers also he was closely related with Arun Kamble etc. He practices Navayana Buddhism. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Bharat Patankar」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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