Pandurang Purushottam Shirodkar

{{short description|Indian freedom fighter and politician (1916–2000)}}

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{{Infobox officeholder

| name = Pandurang Purushottam Shirodkar

| birth_date = {{Birth date|1916|12|12|df=y}}

| death_date = {{Death date and age|2000|9|5|1916|12|12|df=y}}

| birth_place = Goa, Portuguese India

| office = Speaker of the Goa, Daman and Diu Legislative Assembly

| image = 220 pic Pandurang-Purushottam-Shirodkar.jpeg

| termstart = 1964

| term_end = 1967

| predecessor = position established

| successor = Gopal Kamat

| office1 = Member of the Goa Legislative Assembly

| termstart1 = 1964

| termend1 = 1967

| predecessor1 = constituency established

| successor1 = Punaji Achrekar

| constituency1 = Siolim

| party = Maharashtrawadi Gomantak Party

| spouse =

| children = Prakashchandra Shirodkar (son)

| nationality = Indian

}}

Pandurang Purushottam Shirodkar (12 December 1916 – 5 September 2000) was an Indian campaigner, author and the first speaker of the Goa, Daman and Diu Legislative Assembly.{{Cite web |url=http://www.goavidhansabha.gov.in/pastspk.php |title=Past speakers of Goa |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090924020431/http://www.goavidhansabha.gov.in/pastspk.php |archive-date=24 September 2009 }} He was born in Goa in Portuguese India. He studied law and worked as an editor of the Navshakti daily newspaper in Bombay.

Later he participated actively in Goa's struggle for freedom from Portuguese colonial rule and was in exile in Africa and Portugal for many years. He was a member of the Indian National Congress and a prominent figure in the Maharashtrawadi Gomantak Party.cabinet government in Goa, 1961–1993, Pages:4–5 By Aureliano Fernandes

Shirodkar authored many books in Marathi, Konkani, English and Portuguese, and translated Bal Gangadhar Tilak's Shrimadbhagwadgeetarahasya into Portuguese.