Shankar Ramchandra Kharat

Shankar Ramchandra Kharat (Devanagari (19212001) was a Marathi writer from

Maharashtra, India.
He was born in Atpadi, secondary capital of the former princely state of Aundh, now in Sangli
district. He had converted to Buddhism in his adulthood.
He was worked with Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar for many years. He was a true follower of Dr.
Babasaheb Ambedkar. 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.
For some years, Kharat served as the vice-chancellor of Marathwada University. and member of
council of Maharashtra State.
In his writings, he mainly wrote about the life experiences of people from Dalit community.

Life
Dr. Shankarrao Kharat was the first child in the family born by father, Shri Ramchandra Tatya
kharat and Mother, Smt. Savitri Ramchdra kharat, followed by three brothers named
Dnyaneswar, Maruti and Sopan and three sisters named Bhagirathi, Pavitra and Shevanta.He
received his education till Secondary high school at Shree Bhavani High School at Atpadi, after
which, he moved to Pune to receive his further education. Where, he received his Bachelors
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 Bachoulers Degree course in Law (LLB), where he came in contact
with Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar and became his personal secretory. He also fulfilled his
responsibilities as the national joint secretory of Schedule Cast Federation led by Dr. 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. Dr. 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 .

Books
Autobiography

Taral Antaral (1981)

Collections of short stories

Bara Balutedar (1959)

Tadipar (1961)

Sangava (1962)

Titvicha Phera (1963)

Sutaka (1964)

Daundi (1965)

Adgavche Pani (1970)

Gav-Shiv (1970)

Novels

Hatbhatti (1970)

Gavacha Tinpol Guruji (1971)

Jhopadpatti (1973)

Masaledar Guesthouse (1974)

Footpath Nambar 1 (1980)

Majhe Nav (1987)