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- ↑ "chandraseniya kayastha prabhus aim for better community connect".
CKP as a community has been known for its "writing and fighting skills". Some prominent faces that it boasts as members are [...] Ram Ganesh Gadkari [...]
- ↑ Kumar Ketkar. "Obidiently yours". The Hindu. Retrieved 31 October 2014.
- ↑ Harish Damodaran. INDIA'S NEW CAPITALISTS: Caste, Business, and Industry in a Modern Nation. Hachette UK. p. 20. Retrieved 25 November 2018.
The Mhaiskars are Chitpavan, while Gadkari is a Deshastha Brahmin
- ↑ "Son Of The Sangh". The Caravan. Retrieved 1 April 2018.
NITIN GADKARI WAS BORN in 1957, to Jairam and Bhanutai Gadkari. The Gadkaris were a Deshastha Brahmin family of modest means, with some agricultural land in Dhapewada village, near Nagpur. They lived in an area of old Nagpur called Mahal, close to the RSS's headquarters.
- ↑ Maharashtra State Gazetteers: General Series: Maharashtra, land and its people(CHAPTER 5—ORGANISATION OF SPACE) (PDF). Directorate of Government Print., Stationery and Publications. 1968. p. 136.
There was also a gadkari (head of the civil administration of the fort and for tax-collection from the surrounding villages) who was generally a Kayastha and a Brahmin who was the Temple priest, letter-writer etc. Sometimes, people of some other caste held these posts.
- ↑ "Gadkari means protector of fort: BJP". The Siasat Daily. Retrieved 18 November 2009.
- ↑ Crispin Bates. Mutiny at the Margins: New Perspectives on the Indian Uprising of 1857: Volume I: Anticipations and Experiences in the Locality. SAGE Publishing. p. 178. Retrieved 26 March 2013.
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