List of Chitpavan Brahmins
This is a list of notable members of the Chitpavan Brahmin community.
- Balaji Vishwanath and his descendants, Bajirao I, Chimaji Appa, Balaji Bajirao, Raghunathrao, Sadashivrao Bhau, Madhavrao I, Narayanrao, Madhavrao II, and Bajirao II[1]
- Nana Fadnavis (1742–1800), regent to Madhavrao II[2]
- The Patwardhans, military leaders under the Peshwa[3] and later rulers of various princely states
- Balaji Pant Natu, spied for the British against the Peshwa era Maratha Empire and raised the Union Jack over Shaniwar Wada.[4]
- Lokhitwadi (Gopal Hari Deshmukh) (1823–1892), social reformer[5][6]
- Vishnubawa Brahmachari (1825–1871), 19th-century Marathi Hindu revivalist[7]
- Mahadev Govind Ranade (1842–1901),[8] judge and social reformer
- Vishnushastri Krushnashastri Chiplunkar (1850–1882),[9] Marathi writer
- Vasudev Balwant Phadke (1845–1883),[10] Indian independence activist
- Bal Gangadhar Tilak (1856–1920),[11] Indian self-rule activist
- Gopal Ganesh Agarkar (1856 – June 1895),[12] journalist, educator and social reformer
- Keshavsut (Krishnaji Keshav Damle) (15 March 1866 – 7 November 1905), Marathi-language poet[13]
- Vaman Shivram Apte (1858–1892), Indian lexicographer[14]
- Dhondo Keshav Karve (1858–1962),[15] social reformer and advocate of women's education
- Anandibai Joshi (1865–1887), first Indian woman to get a medical degree
- Gopal Krishna Gokhale (1866–1915),[16] Indian political leader and social reformer
- Ramabai Mahadev Ranade (1862–1925), Indian social worker and women's rights activist
- Chapekar brothers (1873–1899), (1879–1899), brothers who assassinated British plague commissioner W. C. Rand
- Gangadhar Nilkanth Sahasrabuddhe, Indian social reformer
- Narasimha Chintaman Kelkar (1872–1947),[17] writer, journalist, and nationalist leader
- Vinayak Damodar Savarkar[18][19] (28 May 1883 – 26 February 1966), Indian politician and ideologue
- Senapati Bapat (12 November 1880 – 28 November 1967), Indian independence activist
- Dadasaheb Phalke (30 April 1870 – 16 February 1944), Indian producer, directorm and screenwriter[20]
- Krushnaji Prabhakar Khadilkar (25 November 1872 – 26 August 1948), editor of Kesari and Navakal[21]
- Vishnu Narayan Bhatkhande (1860–1936), Indian musical theorist
- Vishwanath Kashinath Rajwade (1863–1926), Indian historian[22]
- Pandurang Vaman Kane (1880–1972), Indologist
- Anant Laxman Kanhere (1891–1910), Indian nationalist and revolutionary
- Vinoba Bhave (1895–1982), Gandhian leader and freedom fighter[23]
- D. R. Bendre (1896–1981), poet and writer in the Kannada language
- Narhar Vishnu Gadgil (10 January 1896 – 12 January 1966), Congress leader and Member of Nehru's cabinet[23]
- Babasaheb Apte (1903–1971), an early leader in the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), a Hindutva paramilitary organisation[24]
- Irawati Karve (1905–1970), Indian sociologist and anthropologist[25]
- Nathuram Godse (19 May 1910 – 15 November 1949), Mahatma Gandhi's assassin[26]
- Narayan Apte (1911–1949) – co-conspirator in the assassination of Gandhi[26]
- Gopal Godse (1919–2005) – co-conspirator in the assassination of Gandhi and Nathuram Godse's younger brother[27]
- Ramchandra Dattatreya Ranade (1886–1956), Indian scholar and philosopher
- Pandurang Shastri Athavale (1920–2003), Indian philosopher, spiritual leader, and religious reformer
- Madhuri Dixit (born 1967), a Bollywood actress[28]
MILIND Soman : Actor , Vidyadhar Gokhale : Artist. Ramkrishna Buva Vaze : classical VOCAL Musician. Senapati BAPAT : Freedom Fighter.
References
[edit]- ↑ Gokhale, B.G. (1998). The Fiery Quill: Nationalism and Literature in Maharashtra. Popular Prakashan. p. 40. ISBN 978-81-7154-805-7.
- ↑ Chaurasia, R.S. (2004). History of the Marathas. New Delhi: Atlantic Publishers & Distributors. p. 9. ISBN 9788126903948.
- ↑ Gordon, Stewart (1 February 2007). The Marathas 1600-1818. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9780521033169 – via Google Books.
- ↑ O'Hanlon, Rosalind (2002), Caste, Conflict and Ideology: Mahatma Jotirao Phule and Low Caste Protest in Nineteenth-Century Western India, Cambridge South Asian Studies, Cambridge University Press, p. 27-28, ISBN 978-0-521-52308-0
- ↑ Kavlekar, K., 1983. Politics of Social Reform in Maharashtra. Political Thought and Leadership of Lokmanya Tilak, p.202
- ↑ Bal Ram Nanda (1977). Gokhale: The Indian Moderates and the British Raj. Princeton University Press. p. 17. ISBN 9781400870493.
His[Deshmukh's] family of Chitpavan Brahmans, one of the greatest beneficiaries of the Peshwa regime...
- ↑ Jones, Kenneth W. (January 1992). Religious Controversy in British India: Dialogues in South Asian Languages. SUNY Press. p. 238. ISBN 9780791408278. Retrieved 14 September 2020.
- ↑ Wolpert, Stanley A. (April 1991). Tilak and Gokhale: Revolution and Reform in the Making of Modern India. Oxford: Oxford University Press. p. 32. ISBN 978-0195623925.
- ↑ Wolpert, Stanley A. (April 1991). Tilak and Gokhale: Revolution and Reform in the Making of Modern India. Oxford: Oxford University Press. p. 9. ISBN 978-0195623925.
- ↑ Bayly, Susan (2000). Caste, society and politics in India from the eighteenth century to the modern age (1st, Indian ed.). Cambridge [u.a.]: Cambridge Univ. Press. p. 236. ISBN 978-0-5217-9842-6.
The true nature of these groups, said fearful Bombay officials, had been revealed in 1879 in the response of the region's politically active intelligentsia to the actions of W.B.Phadke, a chitpavan ex-government clerk from Pune.
- ↑ Hansen, Thomas Blom (2001). Wages of Violence: Naming and Identity in Postcolonial Bombay. Princeton University Press. p. 29. ISBN 978-0-69108-840-2.
- ↑ Wolpert, Stanley A. (April 1991). Tilak and Gokhale: Revolution and Reform in the Making of Modern India. Oxford: Oxford University Press. p. 19. ISBN 978-0195623925.
- ↑ Keshavsut, Prabhakar Machwe, Indian Literature, Vol. 9, No. 3 (July–September 1966), pp. 43–51
- ↑ Cashman, Richard I. (14 June 2024). The Myth of the Lokamanya: Tilak and Mass Politics in Maharashtra. Univ of California Press. p. 222. ISBN 978-0-520-41485-3.
- ↑ Karve, Dinakar D. (1963). The New Brahmans: Five Maharashtrian Families (1st ed.). Berkeley, CA: University of California Press. p. 13.
- ↑ Wolpert, Stanley A. (April 1991). Tilak and Gokhale: Revolution and Reform in the Making of Modern India. Oxford: Oxford University Press. p. 2. ISBN 978-0195623925.
- ↑ Sri Narasimha Chintaman "Alias" Tatyasaheb Kelkar, K. N. Watve, Annals of the Bhandarkar Oriental Research Institute, Vol. 28, No. 1/2 (January–April 1947), pp. 156-158, published by Bhandarkar Oriental Research Institute
- ↑ Wolf, Siegfried O. "Vinayak Damodar Savarkar: Public Enemy or national Hero?" (PDF). Retrieved 3 May 2016.
- ↑ Wolf, Siegfried, ed. (2009). Heidelberg Student papers, Vinayak Damodar Savarkar:: Public Enemy or national Hero (PDF). Dresden: Heidelberg University. p. 10. ISBN 978-3-86801-076-3.
- ↑ Jain, Kajri (2007). Gods in the Bazaar: The Economies of Indian Calendar Art. Duke University Press Books. p. 151. ISBN 978-0822389736.
- ↑ Richard I. Cashman (25 September 2018). The Myth of the Lokamanya: Tilak and Mass Politics in Maharashtra. University of California Press. p. 222. ISBN 9780520303805. Retrieved 25 September 2018.
- ↑ Kulkarni, A.R., 2002. Trends in Maratha Historiography: Vishwanath Kashinath Rajwade (1863–1926). Indian Historical Review, 29(1–2), pp.115–144.
- 1 2 Ruby Maloni; Mariam Dossal, eds. (1999). State intervention and popular response : western India in the nineteenth century. Mumbai: Popular Prakashan. p. 87. ISBN 9788171548552.
- ↑ Jaffrelot, Christophe (1999). The Hindu Nationalist Movement and Indian Politics: 1925 to the 1990s : Strategies of Identity-building, Implantation and Mobilisation (with Special Reference to Central India). Penguin Books India. p. 42. ISBN 978-0-14-024602-5.
- ↑ Patricia Uberoi; Nandini Sundar; Satish Deshpande (2008). Anthropology in the East: founders of Indian sociology and anthropology. Seagull. p. 367. ISBN 9781905422784.
In this general atmosphere of reform and women's education, and coming from a professional Chitpavan family, neither getting a education nor going into a profession like teaching would for someone like Irawati Karve have been particularly novel.
- 1 2 Alex Damm, ed. (2017). Gandhi in a Canadian Context: Relationships between Mahatma Gandhi and Canada. Wilfrid Laurier University Press. p. 54. ISBN 9781771122603.
Moreover, the two principal conspirators behind Gandhi's assassination, who were hung for their actions – Nathuram Godse and Narayan Apte – were both Chitpavan Brahmins from Maharashtra as was Savarkar, their ideological mentor. The Chitpavans had a long history of supporting violence against the alleged enemies of Brahminical Hinduism.
- ↑ Thomas Blom Hansen (1999). The Saffron Wave: Democracy and Hindu Nationalism in Modern India. Princeton University Press.
Gandhi's assassin Naturam Godse, a Chitpavan brahmin from Pune, had been a member of the RSS for some years, as well as a member of the Hindu Mahasabha. In the early 1940s Godse left the RSS to form a militant organization, Hindu Rashtra Dal, aimed at militarizing the mind and conduct of Hindus, to make them "more assertive and aggressive" (interview with Naturam Godse's brother Gopal Godse, still a member of the Hindu Mahasabha, in Pune, 3 February 1993)
- ↑ "Shah Rukh is not a good dancer but has charisma: Madhuri". Times of India.
Also, we both come from similar backgrounds and are Kokanastha brahmins and have had typical Maharashtrian upbringing that makes us culturally similar.