Gadgil is a
Chitpavan
The Chitpavan Brahmin or Konkanastha Brahmin is a Hindu Maharashtrian Brahmin community inhabiting Konkan, the coastal region of the state of Maharashtra. Initially working as messengers and spies in the late seventeenth century, the community ...
brahmin
Brahmin (; sa, ब्राह्मण, brāhmaṇa) is a varna as well as a caste within Hindu society. The Brahmins are designated as the priestly class as they serve as priests (purohit, pandit, or pujari) and religious teachers (guru ...
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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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India
India, officially the Republic of India (Hindi: ), is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by area, the second-most populous country, and the most populous democracy in the world. Bounded by the Indian Ocean on the so ...
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Notable persons
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Anant Gadgil
Anant Gadgil (born September 18, 1956) is an Indian politician and architect, who has been a member of the Maharashtra Legislative Council 2014 to 2022 He is a member of the Indian National Congress party. Born into the Gadgil ''Noble house (ter ...
(born 1956), Indian politician
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Anant "Dajikaka" Gadgil (1915–2014), Indian jeweller, founder of
P. N. Gadgil Jewellers & Company in
Pune
Pune (; ; also known as Poona, (List of renamed Indian cities and states#Maharashtra, the official name from 1818 until 1978) is one of the most important industrial and educational hubs of India, with an estimated population of 7.4 million ...
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Arvinn Gadgil
Arvinn Eikeland Gadgil (born 18 January 1980, Tromsø, Norway) is a Norwegian Socialist Left Party politician of Indian descent. He was the State Secretary (International Development Affairs) of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs from April 201 ...
(born 1980), Norwegian Socialist Left Party politician of Indian descent
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Ashok Gadgil
Ashok Gadgil (born November 15, 1950 in Mumbai, India) Is the Andrew and Virginia Rudd Family Foundation Distinguished Chair and Professor of Safe Water and Sanitation at the University of California, Berkeley. He is a Faculty Senior Scientist and ...
(born 1950), Director of the Energy and Environmental Technologies Division at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
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Dhananjay Ramchandra Gadgil
Dhananjay Ramchandra Gadgil (10 April 1901 – 3 May 1971), also known as D. R. Gadgil, was an Indian economist, institution builder and the vice-chairman of the Planning Commission of India. He was the founder Director of the Gokhale Institute ...
(1901–1971), Indian economist, institution builder and the vice chairman of the Planning Commission of India
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Ganesh Gadgil (1815–1890), Indian jeweller, founder of
P. N. Gadgil Jewellers & Sons in
Sangli
Sangli () is a city and the district headquarters of Sangli District in the state of Maharashtra, in western India. It is known as the Turmeric City of Maharashtra due to its production and trade of the spice. Sangli is situated on the banks o ...
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Gangadhar Gopal Gadgil (1923–2008), Marathi writer from Maharashtra, India
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Madhav Gadgil (born 1942), Indian ecologist, academic, writer, columnist and the founder of the Centre for Ecological Sciences
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Monica Gadgil, contestant on ''Fame Gurukul'', an Indian prime-time show on Sony Entertainment Television (India)
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Narhar Vishnu Gadgil
Narhar Vishnu Gadgil (10 January 1896 – 12 January 1966) was an Indian freedom fighter and politician from Maharashtra, India. He was also a writer. He wrote in both Marathi and English. His son Vitthalrao Gadgil represented Congress later ...
(1896–1966), Indian freedom fighter and politician from Maharashtra, India
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Purshottam Narayan Gadgil
Purshottam Narayan Gadgil Jewellers is an Indian jewellery company. Established in 1832 by Ganesh Gadgil, the company operated in two branches, with P. N. Gadgil & Sons in Sangli, and P. N. Gadgil & Company in Pune, until the branches' legal s ...
(1874–1954), Indian jeweller, namesake of P. N. Gadgil Jewellers
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Sulochana Gadgil
Sulochana Gadgil is an Indian meteorologist who retired as Professor from the Centre for Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences (CAOS) in Bangalore, India. She has studied the how and why of monsoon, including farming strategies to cope with rainfa ...
(born 1944), Indian meteorologist at the Centre for Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences (CAOS) in Bangalore, India
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Vitthalrao Gadgil (1928–2001), politician in cabinet of Indian National Congress run government
See also
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Gadgil Committee (WGEEP), an environmental research commission appointed by the Ministry of Environment and Forests of India, chaired by Madhav Gadgil
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Gadgil formula The Gadgil formula is named after Dhananjay Ramchandra Gadgil, a social scientist and the first critic of Indian planning. It was evolved in 1969 for determining the allocation of central assistance for state plans in India. Gadgil formula was ado ...
, named after Dhananjay Ramchandra Gadgil, a social scientist and the first critic of Indian planning
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Gagil
Gagil ( yap, Gagil, dialect ''Ggil'') is a municipality in the state of Yap. It forms part of Island and covers the eastern side of the island. It has a population of roughly 400 people scattered in village groups. One of these villages includes ...
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Yap
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Gagal,
Iran
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