Amte, Baba

Amte, Baba
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Murlidhar Devidas Amte 
      Indian lawyer and social activist

born Dec. 26, 1914, Maharashtra district, British India

died Feb. 9, 2008, Anandvan, Maharashtra, India
devoted his life to India's Harijan (untouchables) and especially to the care of those individuals who suffered from leprosy (Hansen's disease). His work earned him numerous international awards, notably the 1971 Padma Shree, the 1988 UN Human Rights Prize, a share of the 1990 Templeton Prize, and the 1999 Gandhi Peace Prize. Amte was born into an affluent Brahmin family and acquired the nickname Baba as a child. He trained as a barrister but, influenced by Mahatma Gandhi's nonviolent fight for justice, abandoned his legal career in the 1940s. He settled with his wife in a labour ashram, then studied leprosy at the Calcutta (now Kolkata) School of Tropical Medicine, and in 1951 founded Anandvan, an ashram dedicated to the treatment and rehabilitation of leprosy patients. Amte, who suffered from cancer, died at the Anandvan ashram and was given a Maharashtra state funeral.

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