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- Anglo-Maratha wars, Chitpavans were one of the Hindu communities to flock to western education in the Bombay Province of British India. The Chitpavans are also known...
- founding myth of Chitpavans as a "malicious invention" by Shenvi slanderers, and narrated another founding myth glorifying the Chitpavans. Bajirao II (r...
- of the Maratha Empire, spanning the 17th and 18th centuries, when some Chitpavans also emerged as peshwas and thus the de facto rulers. During the peshwa...
- and nationalists of the late 19th century. Until the 18th century, the Chitpavans were held in low esteem by the Deshastha, the older established Brahmin...
- and Narayan Apte – were both Chitpavan Brahmins from Maharashtra as was Savarkar, their ideological mentor. The Chitpavans had a long history of supporting...
- a Hindu surname found among the caste of Chitpavan Kokanastha Brahmins, the origin of the Vartak chitpavans supposedly was in the small coastal village...
- to the Indian state of Maharashtra. Abhyankar surname is found among Chitpavan Brahmin community. Abhyankar is a Sanskrit word which means One who removes...
- [better source needed] Patwardhan dynasty, Indian dynasty established by a Chitpavan BrahminPatwardhan family.[citation needed] Shunga Empire, of Magadha was...
- Konkani-Marathis (1.50%) Konkani (0.97%) Konkani-speaking Marathis (0.53%) Chitpavans (0.18%) Other Konkani-speaking Marathis (0.35%) Vidarbha Marathis (1.20%)...
- else during the Anglo-Mughul interregnum Gokhale, Sandhya (2008). The Chitpavans: Social Ascendancy of a Creative Minority in Maharashtra, 1818–1918. Shubhi...