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Rajiv Dixit
Indian activist
Rajiv Dixit[a] (30 November 1967 – 30 November 2010) was an Indian social activist who founded the Azadi Bachao Andolan.
His organisation promoted a message of swadeshi-economics that opposed globalisation and neo-liberalism.
In alliance with Ramdev, he formed the Bharat Swabhiman Andolan and its political offshoot, which combined the economic message with promotion of yoga and Ayurveda.
Life and career
In 1984, the Bhopal disaster, in which a gas leak from a pesticide plant owned by a multinational corporation resulted in thousands of deaths, led Dixit to question the role of such corporations in the Indian economy.
His thinking on the subject was subsequently shaped by Dharampal, a Gandhian historian and thinker. In 1992, Dixit founded the trust, Azadi Bachao Andolan (Save Independence Movement), with the stated mission to "counter the onslaught of foreign multinationals and the western culture on Indians, their values, an