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]
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 [...]
The Mhaiskars are Chitpavan, while Gadkari is a Deshastha Brahmin
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.
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.