# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/nanaji-deshmukh
# Generated: 2026-08-15T05:55:38.270Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/nanaji-deshmukh"
name: "Nanaji Deshmukh"
slug: "nanaji-deshmukh"
description: "Chandikadas Amritrao Deshmukh, better known as Nanaji Deshmukh, was an Indian social activist and politician. He worked in the fields of education, health, and rural self-reliance. He was posthumously awarded the Bharat Ratna, India's highest civilian award in 2019 by the Government of India. He was a leader of the Bharatiya Jana Sangh (BJS), the precursor to the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), alongside being a member of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), a right-wing Hindutva paramilitary organisation."
tagline: "Indian activist (1916–2010)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Nanaji_Deshmukh_2017_stamp_of_India.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "IN"
category:
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  slug: "politicians"
profileType:
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  slug: "politician"
birthDate: "1916-10-11"
deathDate: "2010-02-27"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
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  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump