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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.
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]
The Maratha threat was compounded by their attacks on native Catholics and destruction of local churches during their repeated attacks on Goa in the 17th century. This led the Portuguese government to initiate a positive programme for the suppression of Konkani in Goa, in order to make native Catholic Goans identify fully with the Portuguese ...
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 ...
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.
Moropant Ramachandra Paradkar (1729–1794), Marathi poet who was the last among those classified by Marathi literary scholars as pandit (पंडित) poets. [23] Balshastri Jambhekar (1810-1846), journalist and founder of Darpan, the first newspaper in the Marathi language. [24]
Born in Marcel, Goa, he has authored many books in Marathi as well as in the Konkani language. He is best known for Gomantak prakriti ani Sanskriti (Goa:Nature and Culture, volumes I-III), an encyclopedic work on history and culture of Goa and the Goans. [1] This work was republished on occasion of his birth centenary, in March 2009.