Background
He was born in Atpadi, secondary capital of the former princely state of Aundh, now in Sangli district.
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Shankar Ramchandra Kharat
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He was worked with Doctor Babasaheb Ambedkar for many years. Babasaheb told him "We have doctors, engineers, lawyers and many educated people in our community but we don"t have writers in our community. Our community literature needs to be focused and established all over India.
You need to take this responsibility." Then ShakarRao Kharat started writing books and stories about Dalit"s Stories and literature.
He established "Dalit literature" all over India. Foreign some years, Kharat served as the vice-chancellor of Marathwada University.
In his writings, he mainly wrote about the life experiences of people from Dalit community. Where, he received his Bachelor’s degree in Arts and ranked top in Maharashtra.
Later, he decided to move to Mumbai in search of a job and to enrol himself in Bachouler’s Degree course in Law (Bachelor of Laws), where he came in contact with Doctor Babasaheb Ambedkar and became his personal secretory.
He also fulfilled his responsibilities as the national joint secretory of Schedule Cast Federation led by Doctor Babasaheb Abedkar himself. Meanwhile, he led the Union of Ammunition factory worker at Pune and soon gained a reputation as the lawyer of the poor people. Doctor Ambedkar expressed his concern about dalit literature and inspired him to write about the miserable life led by dalits, especially when a non-dalit writer, an upper cast the one from his own hometown called Shri Venkatesh Madgulkar, could write about dalit community.
Membership
And member of council of Maharashtra State.
