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
Nana Fadnavis (1742–1800), regent to Madhavrao II
The Patwardhans, military leaders under the Peshwa 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.
Lokhitwadi (Gopal Hari Deshmukh) (1823–1892), social reformer
Vishnubawa Brahmachari (1825–1871), 19th-century Marathi Hindu revivalist
Mahadev Govind Ranade (1842–1901), judge and social reformer
Vishnushastri Krushnashastri Chiplunkar (1850–1882), Marathi writer
Vasudev Balwant Phadke (1845–1883), Indian independence activist
Bal Gangadhar Tilak (1856–1920), Indian self-rule activist
Gopal Ganesh Agarkar (1856 – June 1895), journalist, educator and social reformer
Keshavsut (Krishnaji Keshav Damle) (15 March 1866 – 7 November 1905), Marathi-language poet
Vaman Shivram Apte (1858–1892), Indian lexicographer
Dhondo Keshav Karve (1858–1962), 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), 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), writer, journalist, and nationalist leader
Vinayak Damodar Savarkar (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
Krushnaji Prabhakar Khadilkar (25 November 1872 – 26 August 1948), editor of Kesari and Navakal
Vishnu Narayan Bhatkhande (1860–1936), Indian musical theorist
Vishwanath Kashinath Rajwade (1863–1926), Indian historian
Pandurang Vaman Kane (1880–1972), Indologist
Anant Laxman Kanhere (1891–1910), Indian nationalist and revolutionary
Vinoba Bhave (1895–1982), Gandhian leader and freedom fighter
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
Babasaheb Apte (1903–1971), an early leader in the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), a Hindutva paramilitary organisation
Irawati Karve (1905–1970), Indian sociologist and anthropologist
Nathuram Godse (19 May 1910 – 15 November 1949), Mahatma Gandhi's assassin
Narayan Apte (1911–1949) – co-conspirator in the assassination of Gandhi
Gopal Godse (1919–2005) – co-conspirator in the assassination of Gandhi and Nathuram Godse's younger brother
Ramchandra Dattatreya Ranade (1886–1956), Indian scholar and philosopher
Pandurang Shastri Athavale (1920–2003), Indian philosopher, spiritual leader, and religious reformer
Dr Dhananjay Gadgil, a pioneer of Indian economic planning
Sumitra Mahajan (Sathe), former Lok Sabha speaker
Digambar Dandekar, co founder of Camlin
Raghunath Chitale, Chitale Bandhu Mithaiwale
Ganesh Gadgil, founder of Purushottam Narayan Gadgil (PNG) jewellers
D.B Deodhar, known as the Grand Old Man of Indian Cricket
Dr Shreeram Lagoo, iconic Marathi actor
Sudhir Phadke, prominent Marathi music composer
Dr Madhav Gadgil, highly respectable ecologist
Madhuri Dixit (born 1967), a Bollywood actress
Milind Soman (04 November 1969), a Bollywood actor
Vidyadhar Gokhale, Indian Politician and Writer
Ramkrishna Buva Vaze, classical vocal musician
Manoj Naravane, 28th Chief of Army Staff
Sai Paranajpye, Acclaimed movie director and screenwriter
Vikram Gokhale, Veteran film, television, and stage actor
Vinda Karandikar, Jnanpeeth awardee
Chintamanrao Appasaheb Patwardhan, ruler of Sangli and Padmabhushan
Dr Narendra Karmarkar, Renowned mathematician and theoretical computer scientist best known for discovering Karmarkar’s algorithm
Dr Suhas Patankar, a pioneer in computational fluid dynamics
Dr Vishnu Bhide, a highly distinguished physicist

References

↑ 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.

[Gokhale_1998_p.-1] Gokhale, B.G. (1998). The Fiery Quill: Nationalism and Literature in Maharashtra. Popular Prakashan. p. 40. ISBN 978-81-7154-805-7.

[2] Chaurasia, R.S. (2004). History of the Marathas. New Delhi: Atlantic Publishers & Distributors. p. 9. ISBN 9788126903948.

[3] Gordon, Stewart (1 February 2007). The Marathas 1600-1818. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9780521033169 – via Google Books.

[4] 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

[5] Kavlekar, K., 1983. Politics of Social Reform in Maharashtra. Political Thought and Leadership of Lokmanya Tilak, p.202

[6] 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...

[7] 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.

[Oxford_University_Press-8] 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.

[9] 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.

[10] 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-11] Hansen, Thomas Blom (2001). Wages of Violence: Naming and Identity in Postcolonial Bombay. Princeton University Press. p. 29. ISBN 978-0-69108-840-2.

[ReferenceA-12] 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.

[13] Keshavsut, Prabhakar Machwe, Indian Literature, Vol. 9, No. 3 (July–September 1966), pp. 43–51

[14] 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.

[University_of_California_Press-15] Karve, Dinakar D. (1963). The New Brahmans: Five Maharashtrian Families (1st ed.). Berkeley, CA: University of California Press. p. 13.

[16] 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.

[17] 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

[heidelberg-papers1-18] Wolf, Siegfried O. "Vinayak Damodar Savarkar: Public Enemy or national Hero?" (PDF). Retrieved 3 May 2016.

[19] 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.

[20] Jain, Kajri (2007). Gods in the Bazaar: The Economies of Indian Calendar Art. Duke University Press Books. p. 151. ISBN 978-0822389736.

[21] 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.

[22] Kulkarni, A.R., 2002. Trends in Maratha Historiography: Vishwanath Kashinath Rajwade (1863–1926). Indian Historical Review, 29(1–2), pp.115–144.

[Maloni99-23] 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.

[24] 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.

[25] 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.

[damm2017-26] 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.

[27] 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)

[28] "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.