Shankar Vaman Dandekar (1895–1968), also known as Sonopant Dandekar, was a philosopher and educationist from

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. Dandekar was an important interpreter of Warkari ''Bhakti Sampraday'' in Maharashtra. He served as a professor of philosophy and the principal of

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for many years. He edited and published several Hindu religious texts in

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and

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languages.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Dandekar, Sonopant 20th-century Indian philosophers 20th-century Indian educational theorists 1896 births 1969 deaths