Anna Bhau Sathe's Thoughts On Marxsim

He was born on 1 August 1920, in Wategaon village, part of present-day Maharashtra's SangaliDistrict to a family that belonged to the untouchable Matang caste,AnnabhauSathe, was a social  reformer Communist folk poet, and writer from Maharashtra , India Sathe was a Dalit  born into the Untouchable Mang  community, and his upbringing and identity were central to his writing and political activism. Sathe was a Marxist-Ambedkarmosaic, initially influenced by the Communists but he later became an Ambedkar.He is credited as a founding father of  Dalit Literature Sathe wrote 35 novels in the Marathi Language. They include Fakira (1959), which is in its 19th edition and received a state government award in 1961.Sathe's use of folkloric narrative styles like powada andlavani helpedpopularise and make his work accessible to many communities. In Fakira, Sathe portrays Fakira, the protagonist, revolting against the rural orthodox system and British Raj to save his community from utter starvation. The protagonist and his community are subsequently arrested and tortured by British officers, and Fakira is eventually killed by hanging.This paper is an attempt to understand his varied contribution towards the Indian labour movement through his varied forms of literature.