: श्रीपाद महादेव माटे) (1886-1957) was a Marathi

Marathi language

Marathi is an Indo-Aryan language spoken by the Marathi people of western and central India. It is the official language of the state of Maharashtra. There are over 68 million fluent speakers worldwide. Marathi has the fourth largest number of native speakers in India and is the fifteenth most...

 writer from Maharashtra

Maharashtra

Maharashtra is a state located in India. It is the second most populous after Uttar Pradesh and third largest state by area in India...

, India

India

India , officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world...

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Mate served for some years as a teacher at Nutan Marathi Vidyalaya

Nutan Marathi Vidyalaya

Nutan Marathi Vidyalaya is a school in Pune, Maharashtra, India. The school was founded on 1 January 1883. Nutan Marathi Vidyalaya consists of a high school and a junior college...

 and then as a professor at S. P. College, both in Pune

Pune

Pune , is the eighth largest metropolis in India, the second largest in the state of Maharashtra after Mumbai, and the largest city in the Western Ghats. Once the centre of power of the Maratha Empire, it is situated 560 metres above sea level on the Deccan plateau at the confluence of the Mula ...

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Himself belonging to the Brahmin

Brahmin

Brahmin Brahman, Brahma and Brahmin.Brahman, Brahmin and Brahma have different meanings. Brahman refers to the Supreme Self...

 class in Hinduism

Hinduism

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, Mate headed an Asprusya Niwarak Mandal (अस्पृश्य निवारक मंडळ) aimed at abolishing untouchability

Untouchability

Untouchability is the social practice of ostracizing a minority group by segregating them from the mainstream by social custom or legal mandate. The excluded group could be one that did not accept the norms of the excluding group and historically included foreigners, nomadic tribes, law-breakers...

 in traditional Hindu

Hindu

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 culture of his times.

Mate undertook writing rather late in his life at age 44, but then during the next 25 years, he wrote material occupying over 10,000 printed pages on a variety of topics, including short stories powerfully bringing out the harsh lives of the downtrodden dalit

Dalit

Dalit is a designation for a group of people traditionally regarded as Untouchable. Dalits are a mixed population, consisting of numerous castes from all over South Asia; they speak a variety of languages and practice a multitude of religions...

s, biographies, historical research, and current events.

Mate presided over Marathi Sahitya Sammelan

Marathi Sahitya Sammelan

Akhil Bharatiya Marathi Sahitya Sammelan is a conference for literary discussions by Marathi writers. Though the conference has sometimes been held in a town outside the Indian state of Maharashtra, it is typically held annually in one of the towns in Maharashtra where Marathi is the mother tongue...

 (मराठी साहित्य सम्मेलन) at Sangli

Sangli

Sangli is a city in the state of Maharashtra of India. Sangli is known as the Turmeric city for its vast production of Turmeric. Sangli is situated on the banks of river Krishna and is the largest market place for Turmeric in Asia and houses many sugar factories, which it is also noted for...

 in 1943.

Family

Mate's son Madhukar (b. 1930) was a professor of Proto and Ancient Indian History at Deccan College

Deccan College

Deccan College may refer to:* Deccan College Post-Graduate & Research Institute * Deccan College of Engineering and Technology * Deccan College of Medical Sciences, a medical college in Hyderabad, India....

's Postgraduate and Research Department, and wrote the book Archaeology of Medieval India.

Literary work

• निवडक श्री. म. माटे

• उपेक्षितांचे अंतरंग

• श्री रामदास स्वामींचे प्रपंचविज्ञान