Shankar Ramchandra Bhise

Shankar Ramchandra Bhise (born into the Marathi CKP family;[1] 1894 - 1971), popularly known as "Acharya Bhise" or "Bhise Guruji", was a social worker, educationalist, and novelist devoted to the education and development of the Adivasi community.

Bhise wrote novels, including Janglantil Chhaya, which discusses the exploitation and conditions of Adivasi forest tribes.[2][3]

References

"The Illustrated Weekly of India". 91 (3). Bennett, Coleman & Company. July 1970: 12. Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
Language and Literature. Directorate of Government of Maharashtra State. 1971. p. 119. Some novelists have shown anxiety to understand the hill tribes now referred to as Adivasis, their life and traditions and their requirements, because they are far more backward than the rural folk and peasantry. Shankar Ramchandra Bhise, Parsharam Trimbak Sahasrabuddhe, Vasudeo Balvant Karnik and Shriram Attarday are some of them. As artistic creations, they are ordinary. Janglantil Chhaya by Bhise is more a report on the conditions of the forest dwellers who are exploited
"Vanyajāti - Volume 19": 125. On the 4th of July 1971, death snatched away from us all, Shri Shankar Ramchandra alias Acharya Bhise at the age of 76. He was a doyen amongst the social workers dedicated, working at the grassroot level, for the down-trodden in Maharashtra. Shri Bhise, amiably known as Bhise Guruji, was one of the pioneer workers who started secular social service for the Adivasis in Thana District in the twenties. Cite journal requires |journal= (help)

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[1] "The Illustrated Weekly of India". 91 (3). Bennett, Coleman & Company. July 1970: 12. Cite journal requires |journal= (help)

[2] Language and Literature. Directorate of Government of Maharashtra State. 1971. p. 119. Some novelists have shown anxiety to understand the hill tribes now referred to as Adivasis, their life and traditions and their requirements, because they are far more backward than the rural folk and peasantry. Shankar Ramchandra Bhise, Parsharam Trimbak Sahasrabuddhe, Vasudeo Balvant Karnik and Shriram Attarday are some of them. As artistic creations, they are ordinary. Janglantil Chhaya by Bhise is more a report on the conditions of the forest dwellers who are exploited

[3] "Vanyajāti - Volume 19": 125. On the 4th of July 1971, death snatched away from us all, Shri Shankar Ramchandra alias Acharya Bhise at the age of 76. He was a doyen amongst the social workers dedicated, working at the grassroot level, for the down-trodden in Maharashtra. Shri Bhise, amiably known as Bhise Guruji, was one of the pioneer workers who started secular social service for the Adivasis in Thana District in the twenties. Cite journal requires |journal= (help)