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    "preferred": "Raghunath Murmu",
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      "Pandit Raghunath Murmu",
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  "death_year": "1982",
  "bio": "Invented the Ol Chiki script for Santali in 1925, given the honorific Guru Gomke by the Mayurbhanj Adivasi Mahasabha; won the 1978 Sahitya Akademi award for Santali literature.",
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      "title": "Guru Gomke Pundit Raghunath Murmu: The Inventor of Ol Chiki Script - JETIR"
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      "url": "https://scroll.in/article/811908/do-you-know-of-the-ol-chiki-script-it-could-be-santhals-and-indias-route-to-their-language",
      "title": "Do you know of the Ol-Chiki script? It could be Santhals' - and India's - route to their language - Scroll.in"
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      "title": "Ol Chiki Script - Wesanthals: A Network for Santals (archived)"
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