Answer» Correct Answer - Option 3 : Thakkar Bapa
The correct answer is Thakkar Bapa. - Rev. A.V.Thakkar, affectionately known as Thakkar Bapa started Bhil Seva Mandal in the year 1923 with a view to uplifting weaker sections of the society particularly the tribal people.
- In 1922, the Bhils had faced a severe famine.
- He started the activities of Adivasioma Retia.
- He started free clothes, grain at concessional prices, hay-making centres etc.
- He saw that poverty, ignorance and exploitation were rampant in the Bhil community.
- He nurtured the Mandal to the position of eminence.
- Thakkar Bapa became a member of the Servants of India Society founded by Gopal Krishna Gokhale in 1905.
- He had authored the book ‘Tribes of India’ which was published in 1950.
- In 1969, India Post released a stamp in his honour.
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