Kisan Baburao Hazare was born on 15 June, 1937 in a small village near Ahmednagar, Bombay province now known as Maharashtra state. He was born to Baburao
Hazare an unskilled labourer at the Ayurveda ashram pharmacy with six siblings to support the family faced significant hardships. Hazare had a childless aunt who looked after him in these times and took him to Bombay, where he studied till class seven and then started selling flowers to make a living.