Datta Bhagat

Dattatraya Ganpat Bhagat is an Indian Marathi playwright, Ambedkarite thinker and one of the leaders of the Dalit theater movement in Marathi. He is a professor of Marathi at the Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar Marathwada University in Aurangabad, Maharashtra.

Works

His play Avart was critically acclaimed for its use of the traditional forms of dindi and tamasha to reflect on Dalit oppression against the background of a pilgrimage to Pandharpur.
His long plays like "Ashmak", "Kheliya" were liked by most of his senior critics and was successfully produced.
His other play Wata Palwata is also well known and included in the collection of Indian plays Drama Contemporary by Erin B Mee. It is considered to be 'a milestone in Marathi theater'.
He is also noted for his literary criticism, particularly the essay Dalit chetna aur Marathi Dalit Rangmanch. Datta Bhagat was selected as the President of the 37th Marathwada Sahitya Sammelan of Marathwada Sahitya Parishad at Jalna
in 2006 Datta Bhagat was selected as the President of the ८६ vya Akhil Bhartiy Marathi Natya Sammelan २००६ at Nanded.