Marathi Buddhist People From Maharashtra

Maharashtra (Marathi: is a state located on the western coast of India. Maharashtra is a part of Western India. It is India's third largest state by area and second largest by population.

This page is a Marathi Maharashtrian Buddhists people. The Buddhist Marathi peopleFormer Hindu - Mahar ethnic group that inhabit the Maharashtra region and state of western India.

History

The Buddhist / Neo Buddhist earliar Mahars are an important social group within The INDIAN state of Maharashtra state and surrounding states. A grouping of related endogamous castes, the Buddhist / Mahar are the largest scheduled caste group in Maharashtra.[1] In the early 1980s, the Buddhist community was estimated to make up AbOUT 9% of the population of the state of Maharashtra.[1].The Mahars have excelled in military services for the last several centuries and Shivaji Maharaj recruited a large number of Mahars into his army in the 17th century.[citation needed] During the colonial period, a large number of Mahars were recruited for military duties by the East India Company and the British Raj. This martial tradition has continued and has found expression in the organization of a Mahar Regiment by the Indian Army in 1941.Traditionally considered lower in the Hindu caste system, during the 20th century a number of Mahars converted to Buddhism, including one of the most prominent Mahars Dr. B. R. Ambedkar. Ambedkar, the first individual from a traditionally untouchable caste to receive a university education, encouraged Mahars to leave Hinduism in protest of their caste status. Mahars who have converted to Buddhism are referred to as 'Navbuddha' (Neobuddhists). In the seventeenth century, Mahars were part of the armies of the Maratha king Shivaji, and in the late eighteenth century and the nineteenth Century, Mahars joined the British armed forces and served until the army was reorganized on a "martial peoples" basis in the late nineteenth century. Former army Mahars were the first to petition the British government for redress and for equal treatment. Mahars who worked on the railways or in the ammunition factories, who were thus free from traditional village work, created a receptive body of urban workers who were ready to join a movement for higher status and even equality.

Politics

• B.R.Ambedkar/Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar (Marathi: डॊ.भीमराव रामजी आंबेडकर) (April 14, 1891 — December 6, 1956), also known as Babasaheb, - Architect of Indian Constitution. Received Bharat Ratna posthumously in 1990Bhimrao Ambedkar (India's first Law Minister, architect of Indian Constitution)Earning law degrees and multiple doctorates for his study and research in law, economics and political science from Columbia University and the London School of Economics

• Eknath Gaikwad एकनाथ महादेव गायकवाड:Indian National Congress INC - Member Of Parliment [since 2004 - till date Mumbai]

• Padma Shri Bhaurao Krishnaji Gaikwad(October 15, 1902 - December 29, 1971) famously known as Dadasaheb Gaikwad was a politician and social worker from Maharashtra, India[1].Republican Party of India
• R.S.Gawai (Governar of Bihar)
• Ramdas Athawale
• Jogendra Kawade
• Bala Nandgaonkar
• Dr. Nitin Raut
• Mukul Wasnik
• Dr. Rajendra Gawai
• Adv. Sulekha Kumbhare
• Adv. Prakash Ambedkar
• Mr. Ranpise
• Laxman Mane

Activists

• Ramdas Athawale
• Jogendra Kawade
• Bala Nandgaonkar
• Dr. Nitin Raut
• Mukul Wasnik
• Dr. Rajendra Gawai
• Adv. Sulekha Kumbhare
• Adv. Prakash Ambedkar
• Mr. Ranpise
• Uttam Kamble
• Vijay Kamble

Academics / Administrator

• Ratnakar Gaikwad :I.A.S. MAHARASHTRA, Mumbai metropolitan area Commissioner
• Uttam Khobragade:I.A.S. MAHARASHTRA,General Manager Brihanmumbai Electric Supply and Transport MUMBAI.
• KISHORE UTTAMRAO GAJBHIYE:I.A.S. MAHARASHTRA B.E.(Mech.)From Visvesvaraya Regional College of Engineering, Nagpur University M.A. (Public Admn.) - Master of Arts in Public Administration (M.A.in Public Administration ) in the year 2003 from Maxwell School of Public Affairs and Citizenship, Syracuse University, New York, U.S.A.
• D R Bansod
• Shyam Tagade
• E Z Khobragade
• S M Gavai
• Ujjval Uke
• Dr. Sanjay Chahande
• S S Yeole
• Praveen Gedam

Science and Technology

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Cinema And Theatre

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Literature

• Namdeo Dhasal-worldclass dalit poet

Music

Abhijeet Sawant (, born October 7, 1981) is an Indian singer. He is the winner of Indian Idol (Season 1), a show that follows the Idol series format which began with Pop Idol in the USA.

Abhijeet Kosambi (lang-mr: आभिजीत कोसंबी(born in 1982) was the winner of the Sa Re Ga Ma Pa Marathi singing contest and was a finalist on Sa Re Ga Ma Pa Challenge 2007 achieving 11th place with public votes.

• Aakanksha Nagarkar
• Vaishali Made/Bhaisane

Pop Music

• Abhijit sawant - The first Indian Idol

Sports

Mr. Khashaba Jadhav the first Olimpic Bronz medelist for India. He is the first wrestler of United India.

Mr. Vinod Kambli the stylist crickter from India.

Bureaucracy

• Dr Narendra Jadhav - Member, Planning Commission, a principal advisor to the RBI and a former advisor to the executive director at the IMF,
• Dr. Bhalchandra Mungekar (Vice Chancellor- Mumbai University )
• Dr. Sukhdev Thorat ( UGC Chairman )

Surnames And Regions Of Maharashtra

• ADSULE - SATARA
• AHIR - NASHIK
• AMBEDKAR - AMRAVATI
• ATHAWALE - SANGLI
• BELE - SATARA
• BORDE - BULDHANA
• CHAVAN - SATARA
• DAHIWADE - WARDHA/NAGPUR
• DHAWALE - NAGPUR
• DHEMRE - WARDHA
• DHOKE - NAGPUR
• DHUMALE - SANGLI/KOLHAPUR/SOLAPUR
• DONGRE - WARDHA
• GADAMBE - NANDED
• GAIKWAD - SATARA/AHMADNAGAR
• GARUD - PUNE
• GAWAI - AMRAVATI
• GAJBHIYE - AMRAVATI /NAGPUR
• GAMRE - RATNAGIRI
• GHATE - NAGPUR
• GORHE - PUNE
• INGAWALE - RATNAGIRI /BULDHANA
• JADHAV - RATNAGIRI /RAIGAD
• JAGTAP - SATARA
• JAWALE - SATARA
• KAMBLE - SATARA /SANGLI /KOLHAPUR /RAIGAD /RATNAGIRI
• KAPSE - NAGPUR
• KIRTAKAR - SATARA
• KIRTAWADE - SATARA
• KUMBHARE - NAGPUR /AMRAVATI
• KOLPE - SATARA /AHMADNAGAR
• KOSAMBI - KOLHAPUR
• MOHITE - RAIGAD /KOLHAPUR
• NANDESHWAR - NAGPUR
• NAIK - NAGPUR

See also

• List of Marathi people