The Latey family is Chitpavan

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family from

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. The family originally bore the surname of Bhagwat, and was established since the 1610s at

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by Naro Narsihna Bhagwat and his wife Lakshmibai. The family came to prominence after the Battle of Kharda on March 11, 1795, when

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Balkrishna Bhagwat, after leading a successful cavalry charge against the forces of the Nizam of Hyderabad, was bestowed several honors by

Peshwa The Peshwa (Pronunciation: e(ː)ʃʋaː was the appointed (later becoming hereditary) prime minister of the Maratha Empire of the Indian subcontinent. Originally, the Peshwas served as subordinates to the Chhatrapati (the Maratha king); later ...

Madhavrao II. His principal honor was the hereditary office of castellan of

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in Tembhu, along with the honor of attending court at the Shaniwar Wada in a

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procession. The surname of ''Latey'' was a corruption of the

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word ''Latley'' (लॅटले), a

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term meaning "stolen" or "robbed". This term was applied to the family in jape by other Chitpavan families at the Peshwa's court for having received such honors, eventually being adopted by the family as their legal surname. Industrialist

Raosaheb Gogte Balkrishna Mahadev Gogte (IAST: Bāḷakr̥shṇa Mahādeva Gogaṭe; 16 September 1916 – 26 February 2000), known colloquially as Raosaheb Gogte (IAST: Rāvasāheba Gogaṭe), was an Indian lawyer, industrialist, philanthropist and education ...

was a descendant of this family through his mother.

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