Gadkari

Gadkari is a Brahmin surname native to the Indian state of Maharashtra. Gadkari surname is found among the Hindu CKP{{cite news | title = chandraseniya kayastha prabhus aim for better community connect| url = http://www.dnaindia.com/mumbai/report-chandraseniya-kayastha-prabhu-s-aim-for-better-community-connect-1935881|quote=CKP as a community has been known for its “writing and fighting skills”. Some prominent faces that it boasts as members are [...] Ram Ganesh Gadkari [...]}} and Deshastha Brahmin{{cite news|url=https://www.thehindubusinessline.com/blink/meet/Obediently-yours/article20900332.ece|title=Obidiently yours|publisher=The Hindu|accessdate=31 October 2014|author=Kumar Ketkar}}{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=92F7DwAAQBAJ&pg=PT20|title=

INDIA'S NEW CAPITALISTS: Caste, Business, and Industry in a Modern Nation|author=Harish Damodaran|publisher=Hachette UK|accessdate=25 November 2018|page=20|quote=The Mhaiskars are Chitpavan, while Gadkari is a Deshastha Brahmin}}{{cite news|title=Son Of The Sangh|url=http://www.caravanmagazine.in/reportage/son-of-the-sangh|accessdate=1 April 2018|publisher=The Caravan|quote=NITIN GADKARI WAS BORN in 1957, to Jairam and Bhanutai Gadkari. The Gadkaris were a Deshastha Brahmin family of modest means, with some agricultural land in Dhapewada village, near Nagpur. They lived in an area of old Nagpur called Mahal, close to the RSS’s headquarters.}} communities.{{cite book|title=Maharashtra State Gazetteers: General Series: Maharashtra, land and its people(CHAPTER 5—ORGANISATION OF SPACE)|url=https://gazetteers.maharashtra.gov.in/cultural.maharashtra.gov.in/english/gazetteer/Language%20and%20Literature/chapter_v.pdf|publisher=Directorate of Government Print., Stationery and Publications|year=1968|page=136|quote=There was also a gadkari (head of the civil administration of the fort and for tax-collection from the surrounding villages) who was generally a Kayastha and a Brahmin who was the Temple priest, letter-writer etc. Sometimes, people of some other caste held these posts.}}