Dhananjay Keer

He had written biographies of Mahatma Jyotiba Phule, B.R Ambedkar, V.D Savarkar, Bal Gangadhar Tilak,[3] Jyotiba Phule,[4]: 194  Rajarshi Shahu Maharaj and Mahatma Gandhi.

His father's name was Vithal and his mother's was Devaki; he was married to Sudha and had six children.

[5]: 136  K. N. Jadhav writes that the revolutionary atmosphere in Ratnagiri in the early 1920s had a great influence on him.

He migrated to Mumbai in 1938 to work with the Education Committee of the city's Municipal Corporation.

[2] He was bestowed with the Padma Bhushan in 1971[2]: 159  and was conferred with an honorary doctorate by the Shivaji University in 1980.