Kisan Faguji Bansod

Kisan Faguji Bansod (Marathi: किसन फागुजी बनसोड, 1879–1946) was a leader of Dalit movement in pre-independence India.

Bansod was born on 18 February 1879 in a Mahar family at Mohapa village near Nagpur.

Influenced by the Bhakti cult, he was a proponent of upliftment of dalits within the fold of Hinduism.

He started his own press in 1910 and published the journals Nirashrit Hind Nagarik, Vital Vidhwansak, Majur Patrika, and Chokhamela.

[3] Though he was a supporter of theory of Aryan conquest and enslavement of dalits, contrary to Dr. B. R. Ambedkar, he was in favour of reforms in Hinduism rather than conversion out of it.