V M Tarkunde Indian Lawyer And Civil Rights Activist Born 1909 - March 22 in History | This Day Story

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March 22, 2004

V. M. Tarkunde, Indian lawyer and civil rights activist (born 1909)

V. M. Tarkunde

Vithal Mahadeo Tarkunde was a prominent Indian lawyer, civil rights activist, and humanist leader and has been referred to as the "Father of the Civil Liberties movement" in India and a former judge of the Bombay High Court The Supreme Court of India also praised him as "undoubtedly the most distinguished judge of the post-Chagla 1957 period" in the Bombay High Court.

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