1. ^{{cite book | title =Dalits and the Democratic Revolution: Dr Ambedkar and the Dalit Movement in Colonial India|last1=Omvedt|first1=Gail|page=138|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=leuICwAAQBAJ&pg=PT138&dq=tipnis+ambedkar#v=onepage&q=tipnis%20ambedkar&f=false|quote=G.N. Sahasrabudhe, a Brahman of the Social Service Legue, and Surendranath Tipnis, another CKP who was president of the Mahad municipality; Chitre and Tipnis were later to be elected as MLAs in Ambedkar's Independent Labour Party, while Sahasrabudhe went on to become the editor of Ambedkar's weekly Janata. }}
2. ^{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=uesABAAAQBAJ&pg=PT163#v=onepage&q&f=false|title=Dalit Women's Education in Modern India: Double Discrimination|author=Shailaja Paik}}
3. ^{{cite book|title=From Concessions to Confrontation: The Politics of an Indian Untouchable Community|author=Jayashree Gokhale|year=1993|publisher=popular prakashan|page=91|quote=...satyagraha was the Samata Sangh (Equality League), an association founded by Ambedkar in 1926-27. The leadership of the Samata Sangh was largely upper caste-Hindu, and included some leaders of the non-Brahman movement in Maharashtra. Indeed it was through the help of Surendranath Tipnis (later known as Dalitmitra Nanasaheb Tipnis), a major caste Hindu lieutenant of Ambedkar, that the Depressed Classes Conference was convened From Self-Reform to Satyagraha}}
4. ^{{cite book|last1=Chatterjee|first1=N.|title=The Making of Indian Secularism: Empire, Law and Christianity, 1830-1960|date=2011|page=66|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=vCOGDAAAQBAJ&pg=PA66&f=false}}