But Baba Amte and his wife used to prioritise the care and treatment and mainstreaming those affected by the dreaded disease of leprosy and lived amongst the affected and ensured that they got exemplary medical care which ended the scourge of the disease for them. Amte strove to dispel the widespread belief that leprosy was highly contagious he even allowed bacilli from a leper to be injected into him as part of an experiment aimed at proving that leprosy was not highly contagious. In those days, people with leprosy suffered a social stigma and Indian society disowned these people. To dispel this thinking he once injected himself with bacilli from a patient, to prove the ailment was not highly contagious. DR BABASAHEB AMBEDKAR BIOGRAPHY IN MARATHI PDF FREEHowever,Amte wanted to create a thinking and understanding that leprosy patients can be truly helped only when a society is free of "Mental Leprosy"-fear and wrong understanding associated with disease. Amte,who never feared for anything till that incident and who fought one time with British men to save the honour of an Indian lady and was also challenged by sweepers of Warora to clean the gutters, was quivered in fright on seeing plight of Tulshiram. However one day his encounter with a living corpse and leprosy patient Tulshiram, filled him with fear. Amte had defended a girl from the lewd taunts of some British soldiers, Gandhi gave him the name – Abhay Sadhak (Fearless Seeker of Truth). He practiced Gandhism by engaging in yarn spinning using a charkha and wearing khadi. He spent some time at Sevagram, at the ashram started by Mahatma Gandhi and became a follower of Gandhism. He soon became involved in the Indian independence movement and, in 1942, began working as a defense lawyer for Indian leaders imprisoned by the colonial government for their involvement in the Quit India movement. Trained in law, he developed a successful legal practice in Wardha. "They put up strong barriers so as to avoid seeing the misery in the outside world and I rebelled against it." "There is a certain callousness in families like my family," he used to say. Though he was born in a wealthy family he was always aware of the class inequality that prevailed in Indian society. When he was old enough to drive, he was given a Singer Sports car with cushions covered with panther skin. By the time he was fourteen, he owned his own gun and hunted bear and deer. As the eldest son of a wealthy land owner, he had an idyllic childhood, filled with hunting and sports. His wife, Sadhanatai Amte, explains that he came to be known as Baba not because "he was regarded as a saint or a holy person, but because his parents addressed him by that name. Murlidhar Amte acquired the nickname Baba in his childhood. a colonial government officer working for the district administration and revenue collection departments. Murlidhar Devidas "Baba" Amte was born in an affluent Deshastha Brahmin family on 26 December 1914 in the city of Hinganghat in Maharashtra. 5 Narmada Bachao Andolan with Medha Patkar.
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