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Gomantak Maratha Samaj is a Hindu community found in the Indian state of Goa. [1] They are known as Nutan Maratha Samaj in the Sindhudurg district of Maharashtra and Naik Maratha Samaj in Maharashtra , Uttara Kannada district of Karnataka , also Telangana respectively.
The belief that Konkani is a dialect of Marathi and that Marathi is the mother tongue of all Goans. [3] The MGP had the backing of non GSB Hindus (especially Bandodkar's Gomantak Maratha Samaj), immigrants from erstwhile British India, as well as the Maratha landlords from the Novas Conquistas.
Other less-generous critics of Kakodkar indict her of running a corruption-prone government, which was particularly dominated by Goa's then-strong transport lobby, and which saw a lot of her fellow Gomantak Maratha Samaj caste members gain predominance in government postings. Towards the end of her tenure, Kakodkar's government was hit by two ...
Commonly known as Kalavants and now known as Gomantak Maratha Samaj is a group of various sub-castes who served the temples and the aristocrats in the olden days. Gomantak Maratha is relatively a new ameliorative name (coined in the late 20th century [1]) given to these groups for uniting and emancipating them. [7]
He led a protest march, part of the Maratha Kranti Morcha and Sakal Maratha Samaj, from his hometown in Jalna, originally intended for Azad Maidan in South Mumbai starting 26 January 2024. The aim was to advocate for expanding Kunbi Other Backward Class certification to Marathas, enabling them to access OBC benefits, including a 27 percent ...
Bandodkar was a member of the Gomantak Maratha Samaj in Portuguese Goa. [7] His proposal to merge Goa with Maharashtra was met with stiff opposition from the native Goans. Indira Gandhi, the then Prime Minister of India then offered him two options: [8] To retain Goa's current status as a union territory.
Subhash Bhaskar Velingkar is an Indian politician who is a former member of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), a Hindu nationalist organization based in India. He belongs to the Gomantak Maratha Samaj community from Goa.
Maharashtrawadi Gomantak Party (abbr. MGP) is a political party in India.It was Goa's first ruling party after the end of Portuguese rule in Goa in 1961.. The party has its base amongst non-Brahmin Hindu migrants from Maharashtra and their descendants, a group that made up a large section of the poorer residents in Goa during Portuguese rule in Goa and whose numbers increased after 1961 by ...