Bapu Gokhale
{{short description|Peshwa general}}
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{{Infobox military person
| name = Bapu Gokhale
| image = Senapati Bapu Gokhale.jpg
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| birth_date = {{circa|1777}}
| death_date = February 19, 1818
| birth_place =
| death_place = Ashti, Maratha Empire (present day Mohol, Maharashtra, India)
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| allegiance = Maratha Empire
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| serviceyears = 1812 - 19 February 1818
| rank = Senapati
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| battles = Third Anglo-Maratha War
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Bapu Gokhale was army chief (Senapati) of the Peshwa in the Third Anglo-Maratha War.{{sfn|Duff|1921|pp=468–469}}
Early life
Gokhale was born Narhar Ganesh Gokhale into the Chitpavan brahmin Gokhale gharana of Tale Khajan.[http://ketkardnyankosh.com/index.php/2012-09-06-10-42-09/7479-2013-02-09-07-52-56 बापू गोखले]{{cite book|last=Pathak|first=Gangadhar|author-link=Gangadhar Pathak|title=Gokhale Kulavruttanta|date=1978|publisher=Gokhale Kulavruttanta Kāryakārī Maṇdaḷa|location=Pune|pages=1286|edition=2nd|url=https://catalog.loc.gov/vwebv/search?searchArg1=81902590&argType1=phrase&searchCode1=K010&searchType=2&combine2=and&searchArg2=&argType2=all&searchCode2=GKEY&combine3=and&searchArg3=&argType3=all&searchCode3=GKEY&location=all&place=all&type=all&language=all&recCount=10|language=mr|lccn=81902590}}
Career
Gokhale was appointed commander-in -chief by Peshwa Baji Rao II with the preparations of the Third Anglo-Maratha War against the East India Company in 1818.{{sfn|Duff|1921|pp=468–469}} He died on February 19, 1818, during the battle of Ashti (now in Mohol taluka, Solapur, Maharashtra) while defending the Peshwa from the company forces. He died with a sword in his hand just as he had wished to have preferred to.{{sfn|Duff|1921|p=491}}https://cultural.maharashtra.gov.in/english/gazetteer/Solapur/places_Ashti.html
Family and descendants
Gokhale had two wives. The first wife had two children. Their first child died early. Their other son, Gopal was killed during the Battle of Ashti. He did not have any children with his second wife Yamunabai. She went to Satara after her husband's death.{{cite book|last=Pathak|first=Gangadhar|author-link=Gangadhar Pathak|title=Gokhale Kulavruttanta|date=1978|publisher=Gokhale Kulavruttanta Kāryakārī Maṇdaḷa|location=Pune|pages=1286|edition=2nd|url=https://catalog.loc.gov/vwebv/search?searchArg1=81902590&argType1=phrase&searchCode1=K010&searchType=2&combine2=and&searchArg2=&argType2=all&searchCode2=GKEY&combine3=and&searchArg3=&argType3=all&searchCode3=GKEY&location=all&place=all&type=all&language=all&recCount=10|language=mr|lccn=81902590}} He was also a great-uncle of Dwarka Gokhale, wife of Chandrashekhar Agashe.{{sfnp|Karandikar|1992|p=8}}
See also
{{commons category|Bapu Gokhale}}
Notes
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References
- {{Citation|title=A History of the Mahrattas|first= James Grant|last=Duff|volume=2|publisher=H. Milford, Oxford University Press|location=London|oclc=61585379|year=1921|editor=Stephen Meredyth Edwardes|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=e_Pc4ZQMoy0C&q=A+history+of+the+Mahrattas,+Volume+2&pg=PA1}}
- {{cite book |last=Karandikar |first=Shakuntala |author-link=Shakuntala Karandikar |date=1992 |title=विश्वस्त |trans-title=Viśvasta |url=https://www.bookwire.com/book/USA/Vishwasta-9781532345012-Karandikar-Shakuntala-59957185 |language=mr |edition=1st |location=Pune |publisher=Śrī Prakāśana |isbn=9781532345012 |lccn=2017322865 |oclc=992168228 |via=Bowker |archive-date=2017-08-29 |access-date=2022-05-23 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170829210023/https://www.bookwire.com/book/USA/Vishwasta-9781532345012-Karandikar-Shakuntala-59957185 |url-status=dead }}
- {{citation | title= Maharashtra government place history gazette for Ashti | url=https://cultural.maharashtra.gov.in/english/gazetteer/Solapur/places_Ashti.html }}
- {{citation|pages=78–105|title=Battles of the honourable East India Company: making of the Raj|isbn=978-81-313-0034-3|publisher=APH Publishing|year=2006|first=M.S|last=Naravane|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=bxsa3jtHoCEC&q=9788131300343}}
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Category:Wars involving the Maratha Confederacy
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