Gadkari

Gadkari is a surname native to the Indian state of Maharashtra. Gadkari surname is found among the Hindu CKP[1] and Deshastha Brahmin[2][3][4] communities.[5]

  1. ^ "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 [...]
  2. ^ Kumar Ketkar. "Obidiently yours". The Hindu. Retrieved 31 October 2014.
  3. ^ 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
  4. ^ "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.
  5. ^ 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.