Ramappa Balappa Bidari
Sri Ramappa Balappa Bidari was an Indian freedom fighter, lawyer, Gandhian, social reformer, and politician who played a seminal role in shaping grassroots democratic governance in pre-independent India.
He was the Prime Minister of the Princely State of Aundh (India), from 1941 until its merger with the Indian Union in 1948, during which he implemented India’s earliest experiment in Gram Swaraj, or village self-rule. Following independence, he served two terms as a Member of Parliament, representing Bijapura South, and remained an advocate of land reforms, cooperative banking, Panchayati Raj, and anti-corruption.
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