Shankar Ramchandra Kharat

Shankar Ramchandra Kharat (11 July 1921 – 9 April 2001) was a Marathi writer from Maharashtra, India.[1]

Kharat was born in Atpadi, the secondary capital of the former princely state of Aundh, now in Sangli district. As an adult, he converted to Buddhism.[2]

Kharat was associated with B. R. Ambedkar.[1] He served for some years as the vice-chancellor of Marathwada University.[3] and as a member of the Maharashtra Legislative Council.

In his writings, Kharat mainly wrote about the life experiences of people from the Dalit community.[4][5]

References

  1. 1 2 The Tribune, Chandigarh, India - Nation
  2. ↑ Eleanor Zelliot, Maxine Berntsen, The Experience of Hinduism: Essays on Religion in Maharashtra (1988), p. 347.
  3. ↑ Dalit Autobiographical Narratives Archived 2007-01-27 at the Wayback Machine.
  4. ↑ Debjani Ganguly, Caste, Colonialism and Counter-modernity (2005), p. 179.
  5. ↑ 558 Anupama Rao, Representing Dalit selfhood
  • Nalini Natarajan, Emmanuel Sampath Nelson, Handbook of Twentieth-century Literatures of India (1996), p. 368
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