Chintaman Vinayak Vaidya

Chintaman Vinayak Vaidya (18 October 1861– 20 April 1938) was a Marathi-language historian and writer from Bombay Presidency, British India. He was Chief Justice of Gwalior State for a period.[1] He was born in a Chitpavan Brahmin family.[2]

In 1908, Vaidya chaired the Marathi Sahitya Sammelan held in Pune. Later, he became involved in the nationalist Congress Democratic Party, which was led by Lokmanya Bal Gangadhar Tilak.[3]

  1. ^ Cashman (1975), pp. 176, 187
  2. ^ Organiser, Volume 32. Bharat Prakashan. 1980. p. 6. The great Sanskrit scholar C. V. Vaidya, a Chitpavan Brahmin...
  3. ^ Cashman (1975), pp. 186–187