Surendranath Tipnis was the president of the Mahad Municipality in the early 1900s and a social activist. He was born in a CKP family. Along with other progressive social activists of the time such as A.V. Chitre and the Chitpawan Brahmin G. N. Sahasrabudhe, he was instrumental in helping Babasaheb Ambedkar during the Mahad Satyagraha. He declared Mahad's public spaces open to untouchables and invited Ambedkar to hold a meeting at Mahad in 1927. Later, he went on to become an MLA in Ambedkar's Independent Labour Party. He was awarded the titles 'Dalitmitra'(friend of the dalits) and 'Nanasaheb'.[1][2][3][4]
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G.N. Sahasrabudhe, a Brahman of the Social Service League, and Surendranath Tipnis, another CKP who was president of the Mahad municipality; Chitre and Tipnis were later to be elected as MLAs in Ambedkar's Independent Labour Party, while Sahasrabudhe went on to become the editor of Ambedkar's weekly Janata.
- ^ Shailaja Paik (11 July 2014). Dalit Women's Education in Modern India: Double Discrimination. ISBN 9781317673309.
- ^ Jayashree Gokhale (1993). From Concessions to Confrontation: The Politics of an Indian Untouchable Community. popular prakashan. p. 91.
...satyagraha was the Samata Sangh (Equality League), an association founded by Ambedkar in 1926-27. The leadership of the Samata Sangh was largely upper caste-Hindu, and included some leaders of the non-Brahman movement in Maharashtra. Indeed it was through the help of Surendranath Tipnis (later known as Dalitmitra Nanasaheb Tipnis), a major caste Hindu lieutenant of Ambedkar, that the Depressed Classes Conference was convened From Self-Reform to Satyagraha
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