The Dalvi is an Indian surname derived from the name of a clan found among the
Saraswat Brahmin
The Saraswat Brahmins are Hindu Brahmins, who are spread over widely separated regions spanning from Kashmir in North India to Konkan in West India to Kanara (coastal region of Karnataka) and Kerala in South India. The word ''Saraswat'' is deriv ...
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Maratha
The Marathi people (Marathi: मराठी लोक) or Marathis are an Indo-Aryan ethnolinguistic group who are indigenous to Maharashtra in western India. They natively speak Marathi, an Indo-Aryan language. Maharashtra was formed as a M ...
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Koli
Koli may refer to:
Places
* Koli, Finland, a hill in Finland
* Koli National Park, a national park in Finland
* Koli, Iran (disambiguation), several places in Iran
* Koli Airfield, a former airfield in the South Pacific
Other uses
* Koli people ...
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Pathare Prabhu communities of
Maharashtra
Maharashtra (; , abbr. MH or Maha) is a states and union territories of India, state in the western India, western peninsular region of India occupying a substantial portion of the Deccan Plateau. Maharashtra is the List of states and union te ...
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People with the name
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John Dalvi
Brigadier John Parashuram Dalvi (3 July 1920 – October 1974) was an Indian Army officer. During the Sino-Indian War of 1962, he was the commander of the Indian 7th Brigade, which was destroyed, leading Dalvi to be captured by the People's Libe ...
(1920–1974), Indian Army officer
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Datta Dalvi
Datta Dalvi, an Indian politician from the Shiv Sena political party was the Mayor of Mumbai
The Mayor of Mumbai is the elected chief of the Municipal Corporation of Greater Mumbai. The mayor is the first citizen of the city. The role is l ...
, Indian politician
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Jaywant Dalvi (1925–1994), Indian Marathi-language writer
* Jaswantarao Dalvi, ruler of Palval, a small principality under the
Sultanates of Deccan (1662)
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Madhav Dalvi
Madhav Dalvi (19 August 1925 – 1 October 2012) was an Indian cricketer. He played first-class cricket for Mumbai and Vidarbha
Vidarbha (Pronunciation: Help:IPA/Marathi, ‹id̪əɾbʱə is a geographical region in the east of the Indian ...
(1925–2012), Indian cricketer
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Michael Dalvi
Michael Dalvi (born 18 May 1945, Bombay, Maharashtra) is a former Indian cricketer who played first-class cricket from 1966 to 1982.
Life and career
Dalvi is the son of Brigadier John Dalvi and was educated at the all-boys boarding school The Do ...
(born 1945), Indian cricketer, son of
John Dalvi
Brigadier John Parashuram Dalvi (3 July 1920 – October 1974) was an Indian Army officer. During the Sino-Indian War of 1962, he was the commander of the Indian 7th Brigade, which was destroyed, leading Dalvi to be captured by the People's Libe ...
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Shireen Dalvi
Shireen Dalvi, also credited as Shirin Dalvi, is an Indian journalist and is the Editor of the Mumbai edition of Urdu language newspaper ''Avadhnama''. She is the only women Editor of an Urdu language newspaper. She was arrested for reprinting t ...
, Indian journalist
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Sudhir Dalvi (born 1939), Indian actor
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Tushar Dalvi, Indian actor
References
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Surnames
Maratha clans