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Indian physician and author (1945–2013)

Narendra Achyut Dabholkar (1 November 1945 – 20 August 2013)^[1] was an Indian physician, social activist, rationalist and author from Maharashtra, India.^[2] In 1989 he founded and became president of the Maharashtra Andhashraddha Nirmoolan Samiti (MANS, Committee for Eradication of Superstition in Maharashtra).

Triggered by his assassination in 2013, the pending Anti-Superstition and Black Magic Ordinance was promulgated in the state of Maharashtra, four days later.^[3] In 2014, he was posthumously awarded the Padma Shri for social work.^[4]

Personal life

Dabholkar was born on 1 November 1945 as the youngest of ten children in the Brahmin^[5][6] household of Achyut and Tarabai.

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

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