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'''Babasaheb Pandurang Adhav''' (1 June 1930 – 8 December 2025) was an Indian social and labour activist and author.<ref>{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=51HFCQAAQBAJ&dq=Baba+Adhav&pg=PA218 |title=Towards a Global History of Domestic and Caregiving Workers |date=26 May 2015 |publisher=BRILL |isbn=978-90-04-28014-4 |language=en}}</ref><br />
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== Life and career ==<br />
Adhav was born in [[Maharashtra]] on 1 June 1930. <br />
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He was a major figure in the social and labour movement in Maharashtra, and a follower of [[Satyashodhak Samaj|Satyashodhak]]. He spent his life organizing underprivileged workers, notably porters, [[Pulled rickshaw|rickshaw pullers]] and construction workers, ensuring they received social security.<ref>{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=X5RTAAAAYAAJ&q=Baba+Adhav |title=The Secularist: Bulletin of the Indian Secular Society |date=2004 |publisher=Indian Secular Society. |language=en}}</ref> He established the '<nowiki/>''Hamal Panchayat''<nowiki/>' which organized porters in Maharashtra, including [[Pune]].<ref>{{Cite book |last=Marshall |first=Shelley |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=qRmEDwAAQBAJ&dq=Baba+Adhav&pg=PA62 |title=Living Wage: Regulatory Solutions to Informal and Precarious Work in Global Supply Chains |date=17 January 2019 |publisher=Oxford University Press |isbn=978-0-19-256600-3 |language=en}}</ref> He led the revolutionary movement '''One Village One Water''<nowiki/>' to fight against [[Caste-related violence in India|caste discrimination]] and tried to establish equality.<ref>{{Cite book |last=O'Hanlon |first=Rosalind |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5kMrsTj1NeYC&dq=Baba+Adhav&pg=PR10 |title=Caste, Conflict and Ideology: Mahatma Jotirao Phule and Low Caste Protest in Nineteenth-Century Western India |date=22 August 2002 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |isbn=978-0-521-52308-0 |language=en}}</ref><br />
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Adhav was admitted to Poona Hospital in early December 2025.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Socialist leader Baba Adhav critical, political leaders visit hospital |url=https://www.msn.com/en-in/health/health-news/socialist-leader-baba-adhav-critical-political-leaders-visit-hospital/ar-AA1RQZD4?apiversion=v2&domshim=1&noservercache=1&noservertelemetry=1&batchservertelemetry=1&renderwebcomponents=1&wcseo=1 |access-date=9 December 2025 |website=www.msn.com}}</ref> He died on 8 December, at the age of 95.<ref>{{Cite news |date=8 December 2025 |title=Renowned socialist leader Baba Adhav, 95, passes away |url=https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/renowned-socialist-leader-baba-adhav-95-passes-away/article70373873.ece |access-date=9 December 2025 |work=The Hindu |language=en-IN |issn=0971-751X}}</ref><br />
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