: हमीद दलवाई) (1932–1977) was a Muslim

Muslim

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 social reformer, thinker, activist and Marathi

Marathi people

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 writer in Maharashtra

Maharashtra

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, India

India

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Early life and education

He was born in a Marathi

Marathi language

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-speaking Muslim

Muslim

A Muslim, also spelled Moslem, is an adherent of Islam, a monotheistic, Abrahamic religion based on the Quran, which Muslims consider the verbatim word of God as revealed to prophet Muhammad. "Muslim" is the Arabic term for "submitter" .Muslims believe that God is one and incomparable...

 family in the Ratnagiri district

Ratnagiri District

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 of Konkan

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Career

Dalwai joined the Indian Socialist Party of Jai Prakash Narayan in his early adulthood, but left it to devote himself to social reforms in the Muslim community, especially regarding women's rights.

Once he organized a march of Muslim women on Mantralaya --Maharashtra state government's administrative building—in Mumbai

Mumbai

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 to demand a uniform civil code for Muslim women.

He started Muslim Satyashodhak Mandal.

He died of progressive kidney failure in 1977, at the age of 44.

Literary work

Dalwai worked as a journalist. His works include Lat (लाट) (The Wave) and Indhan (इंधन) (Fuel) in Marathi, and Muslim Politics In Secular India in English.

Family

Dalwai's brother Hussein is a Congress leader in Maharashtra, a former Member of Indian Parliament, and the state president of Samajwadi Party in Maharashtra.