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{{Infobox person
| name = Bhai Madhavrao Bagal
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| birth_name =
| birth_date = 28 May 1895
| birth_place = [[Kolhapur]], [[Kolhapur State]], [[British India]]
| death_date = 6 March 1986
| death_place = Kolhapur, India
| nationality = Indian
| other_names =
| known_for = Freedom fighter, social reformer, political activist, politician, [[Satyashodhak Samaj|Satyashodhak]], [[Gandhian]], Writer, Orator, Painter
| occupation = Painter, writer, independence activist and politician
}}
'''Madhavrao Khanderao Bagal''' (28 May 1895 – 6 March 1986), also called '''Bhai Madhavrao Bagal''', was a noted writer, artist, journalist, social reformer, political activist, orator and freedom fighter from [[Kolhapur]].<ref name="Kakade1990">{{cite book|author=S. R. Kakade|title=Scheduled Castes and National Integration: A Study of Marathwada|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=S3JDAAAAYAAJ|access-date=2 March 2015|year=1990|publisher=Radiant Publishers}}</ref><ref name=w/>

==Early life==
He was born on 28 May 1895<ref>[http://www.indianage.com/eventdate.php/Art/28-May-1895 Bagal Bhai Madhavrao Khanderao, freedom fighter, author and painter, was born.]</ref> in [[Kolhapur]] to Khanderao Bagal.<ref name="Ltd1985">{{cite book|author=Durga Das Pvt. Ltd|title=Eminent Indians who was who, 1900-1980, also annual diary of events|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=bLEZAAAAYAAJ|access-date=2 March 2015|year=1985|publisher=Durga Das Pvt. Ltd.}}</ref>

His father Khanderao Bagal was a renowned pleader, [[tehsildar]] and also a social reformer. Khanderao was a leader of [[Satyashodhak Samaj]]<ref>{{cite book|title=Chhatrapati Shahu, the piller of social democracy by Pī. Bī Sāḷuṅkhe, M. G. Mali|year=1994|publisher=Education Dept., Govt. of Maharashtra for President, Mahatma Phule Vishwabharati|pages=82–83|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=d9hHAAAAMAAJ&q=Khanderao+Bagal+|access-date=17 March 2015}}</ref> and editor of a newspaper named "Hunter" and hence was also known as "Hunterkar".<ref>{{cite book|title=Freedom movement in princely states of Maharashtra by Arun Bhosale, Ashok S. Chousalkar, Lakshminarayana Tarod|date=2001|publisher=Shivaji University|page=100,116|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=pzZuAAAAMAAJ&q=Khanderao+Bagal+satyashodhak|access-date=17 March 2015}}</ref>

He received his early education at the [[Rajaram High School, Kolhapur]] and later completed painting, modelling and mural decoration courses from [[J. J. School of Art]], [[Bombay]].<ref name=w>{{cite book|title=Who's who in Western India|date=1934|publisher=Sun Publishing House|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=YKo9AAAAMAAJ&q=khanderao+bagal+orator|access-date=20 March 2015|ref=wh}}</ref><ref name="Ltd1985"/>

==Painter==
Madhavrao Bagal, created his own style of painting with expressing light and shade through minimal colors. The environment created in his painting is beautiful. He has written two books namely Artists of Kolhapur and Art and Artists that talk about art and artists in Kolhapur.<ref>[https://www.manase.org/en/maharashtra.php?mid=68&smid=21&did=0&dsid=0&pmid=0&id=443 History of Art in Maharshtra] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130402045857/https://www.manase.org/en/maharashtra.php?mid=68&smid=21&did=0&dsid=0&pmid=0&id=443 |date=2 April 2013 }}</ref>

==Social reformer==
As a social reformer, he worked for up-liftment of [[Dalit]]s and advocated
they be allowed right to visit temple and mingling with other castes.<ref name="Kakade1990"/> His father was staunch [[Satyashodhak Samaj|Satyashodhak]] and Madhavrao followed his footsteps and way back in 1927, he declared that Satyashodhaks should become Socialists.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=pzZuAAAAMAAJ&q=Madhavrao+Bagal+SATYASHODHAK|title=Freedom Movement in Princely States of Maharashtra|year=2001}}</ref>

==Political activist==
As a political activist he founded Praja Parishad in [[Kolhapur State]] in 1939<ref name="Ltd1985"/> and took efforts of awaken farmers of Kolhapur and raise their voice against unjust revenues by way of agitation, in which his chief companion was [[Ratnappa Kumbhar]] and others.<ref name="BhosaleChousalkar2001">{{cite book|author1=Arun Bhosale|author2=Ashok S. Chousalkar|author3=Lakshminarayana Tarodi|author4=Shivaji University|title=Freedom movement in princely states of Maharashtra|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=pzZuAAAAMAAJ|access-date=2 March 2015|year=2001|publisher=Shivaji University}}</ref>

In 1941, when local self-government was instituted in erstwhile Princely State of Kolhapur, the [[Kolhapur Municipal Corporation]] was put under control board of three persons — Madhavrao Bagal, [[Govindrao Korgaonkar]] and Ratnappa Kumbhar.

==Freedom fighter==
He was among the front runner leaders, who spearheaded the agitation for independence of India and especially merger of [[Kolhapur State]] into the [[Dominion of India|Union of India]]. He was arrested with several of his compatriots like [[Ratnappa Kumbhar]], [[Dinakara Desai]], [[Nanasaheb Jagadale]], R. D. Minche and others. He joined [[Indian National Congress]] in mid-1930s, disillusioned by pro-British politics played by older leaders of peasants movement like [[Bhaskarrao Jadhav]], with whom Madhavrao had started agricultural co-operative societies in Kolhapur and adjoining regions.<ref name="DivekarKulkarni1991">{{cite book|author1=V. D. Divekar|author2=G. T. Kulkarni|author3=M. R. Kantak|title=Social Reform Movements in India: A Historical Perspective|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=HvrZAAAAMAAJ|access-date=5 March 2015|year=1991|publisher=Bharat Itihas Samshodhak Mandal|isbn=978-81-7154-561-2|page=80}}</ref> During 1940-47, he was closely working with leaders like [[Mahatma Gandhi]], [[Vallabhbhai Patel]], [[Jawaharlal Nehru]].<ref name="IndiaIndia1980">{{cite book|author1=Bombay (India : State). Committee for a History of the Freedom Movement in India|author2=Maharashtra (India). Committee for History of the Freedom Movement in India|title=Source material for a history of the freedom movement in India|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=NN61AAAAIAAJ|access-date=5 March 2015|year=1980|publisher=Printed at the Govt. Central Press|pages=91, 294, 301}}</ref> <<<>>>

==After independence==
He was one of the front-runner leaders from Dhangar ( Maratha )community, who jointly formed [[Peasants and Workers Party of India|Peasants and Workers Party]] in year 1947 with other former congressman such as [[Keshavrao Jedhe]] of [[Pune]], Shankarrao More of Pune, Kakasaheb Wagh of [[Nasik]], [[Nana Patil]] of [[Satara district|Satara]], [[Tulsidas Jadhav]] of [[Solapur]], [[Dajiba Desai]] of [[Belgaum]], P K Bhapkar and Datta Deshmukh of [[Ahmadnagar]], Vithalrao Hande and others.<ref name="Ravindranath1992">{{cite book|author=P. K. Ravindranath|title=Sharad Pawar, the making of a modern Maratha|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=nuNHAAAAMAAJ|access-date=5 March 2015|date=1 February 1992|publisher=UBS Publishers' Distributors|isbn=978-81-85674-46-9|page=22}}</ref>

==Writer==
He is author of about 30-35 books some of which are ''Kalāvihāra'' (1966), ''Bahujanasamājāce śilpakāra'' (1966), ''Jīvana saṅgrāma; agara, siṃhāvalokana'' (1970), ''Sahavāsāntūna'' (1970), '' Bhāī Mādhavarāvajī, nivaḍaka lekhasaṅgraha'' (1998).<ref name="Patil2002">{{cite book|author=Pandurang Ganapati Patil|title=The Bountiful Banyan: A Biography of Karmaveer Bhaurao Patil|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-oOcAAAAMAAJ|access-date=5 March 2015|year=2002|publisher=Macmillan India|isbn=978-0-333-93689-4|pages=69, 76, 210, 315}}</ref>

==Death==
He died in 6th March1986.<ref name="Kakade1990"/>

==Memorials==
The following institutions have been named after his as memorials:-
*Madhavraoji Bagal Vidhyapeeth, Kolhapur<ref name=o/> is a University named after him.
*Bhai Madhavrao Bagal Kanya Prashala, Village Kabwada, Kolhapur District.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://freetutorial.in/schools/383470|title=Bhai Madhavrao Bagal Kanya Prashala school, K|-bawada Hanuman Talaw, Kolhapur taluk school | FreeTutorial.In -Find your School}}</ref>
*Bhai Madhavrao Bagal Award is instituted by the Madhavraoji Bagal Vidhyapeeth, Kolhapur, which is given every year to an individual for outstanding contribution to the society.<ref name=o>{{cite news|title=Dr Salunkhe gets Bhai Madhavrao Bagal award|url=http://www.oneindia.com/2007/05/22/dr-salunkhe-to-receive-bhai-madhavrao-bagal-award-1179823443.html|access-date=5 March 2015|publisher=One India.|date=22 May 2007}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|title=भाई माधवराव बागल पुरस्कार सुरेश शिपूरकर यांना जाहीर|url=http://www.loksatta.com/vruthanta-news/bhai-madhavrao-bagal-award-declared-to-suresh-shipurkar-117041/|access-date=5 March 2015|date=22 May 2013}}</ref>

==Further reading==
{{commons category|Madhavrao Bagal}}
*{{cite thesis |last=Shinde |first=P. N. |date=1995 |title=Life and career of Madhavrao Bagal |type=PhD |publisher=[[Shivaji University]] |hdl=10603/138303 |publication-place=[[Kolhapur]] |url=https://shodhganga.inflibnet.ac.in/handle/10603/138303 |access-date=23 July 2020}}

==References==
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