page_title: R. B. More
section_title: Civil rights campaign
hierarchical_section_title: R. B. More / Political career / Civil rights campaign
caption_attribution_description: English: Reception Committee for Mahad Satyagraha with Dr. B.R.Ambedkar along with R.B. More and other social workers
context_page_description: Ramchandra Babaji More was a political leader and campaigner with a particular focus around the struggle against the Caste system in India and Class exploitation in the Indian subcontinent.
context_section_description: He was the main organizer of Mahad Satyagraha of 19–20 March 1927, which was led by Dr B. R. Ambedkar.  More originally wrote a detailed account of Mahad Satyagraha in Marathi. The struggle of Dalits at Mahad for asserting their rights to access the public tank, the Chavadar tank, was arguably the first civil rights struggles in history. R.B. More was also the organizer of another convention at Mahad, Manusmriti Dahan Din (Manusmriti Burning Day), which was also led by Babasaheb Ambedkar. This convention took place on 25–26 December 1927, in which thousands of Dalits gathered together to publicly burn a copy of the Manusmriti. Ambedkar also addressed a separate meeting of Dalit women, as part of the convention at Mahad, asking them to shun social practices that perpetuate inequality.
caption: Reception Committee for Mahad Satyagraha
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