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Indian physician and author (–)

Narendra Achyut Dabholkar (1 November – 20 August )^[1] was an Indian physician, social activist, rationalist and author from Maharashtra, India.^[2] In he founded and became president of the Maharashtra Andhashraddha Nirmoolan Samiti (MANS, Committee for Eradication of Superstition in Maharashtra).

Triggered by his assassination in , the pending Anti-Superstition and Black Magic Ordinance was promulgated in the state of Maharashtra, four days later.^[3] In , he was posthumously awarded the Padma Shri for social work.^[4]

Personal life

Dabholkar was born on 1 November as the youngest of ten children in the Brahmin^[5][6] household of Achyut and Tarabai.

His elder siblings included the educationalist, and socialist Devdatta Dabholkar^[7] and Shripad Dabholkar. He is the uncle of Atish Dabholkar.

Narendra did his schooling at New English School Satara and Wi