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Chikhali, looting around 1.5 lakh rupees. While returning towards Ghat Matha, Major Daniel attacked Naik, who was shot dead. His death was a setback to Phadke's revolt: the loss of support forced him to move south to the Shri Shaila Mallikarjun Shrine. Later, Phadke recruited about 500 Rohillas
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family of limited means. As a child, he preferred learning physical skills like wrestling and riding over school education and subsequently dropped out of high school. Eventually he moved to Pune and took the job as a clerk with military accounts department in Pune for 15 years.
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community, an untouchable community, taught Phadke the importance of getting backward castes into mainstream independence movement. It was during this period that Phadke began attending lectures by
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