इस क्षेत्र का अनुवाद अभी इस भाषा में नहीं हुआ है, इसलिए यह अंग्रेज़ी में दिखाया जा रहा है।
Desh · Deccan Inland Plateau
लोग
| नाम | वर्ष | क्षेत्र | किसलिए मशहूर |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dnyaneshwar (Dnyanadev) | c. 1275–1296 | Poet-philosopher | Wrote the Dnyaneshwari at Nevasa in 1290 — a commentary on the Bhagavad Gita in Marathi ovi metre, at a time when philosophical writing was expected to be in Sanskrit. Writing it in the spoken language made Marathi a scriptural medium; his samadhi at Alandi is the origin of the senior palkhi. |
| Namdev | c. 1270–1350 | Poet-saint | A tailor by community, born at Narsi in what is now Marathwada and closely associated with Pandharpur, he composed abhangas and travelled north; sixty-one of his compositions are included in the Guru Granth Sahib, which makes him one of very few figures common to the Marathi and Sikh canons. |
| Chokhamela | 13th–14th century | Poet-saint | Born at Mehuna Raja and resident at Mangalvedha, he belonged to the Mahar community, then placed among the untouchable castes, and was initiated by Namdev. He was killed when a wall he was building collapsed. His abhangas address Vitthal directly and speak plainly about being kept outside the temple; his samadhi stands at the foot of the temple steps at Pandharpur rather than within the shrine, and the Varkari tradition's claim of devotional equality and the social exclusion he describes are both part of its record. |
| Janabai | c. 1258–1350 | Poet-saint | A domestic servant in Namdev's Pandharpur household, of the Shudra Dasi community, who composed several hundred surviving abhangas — many of them about grinding, sweeping and drawing water, with Vitthal described as helping with the work. |
| Tukaram | c. 1608–1650 | Poet-saint | A Kunbi grain trader of Dehu whose abhangas are the most quoted Marathi verse in existence — direct, self-doubting, often angry, and written in the plainest available speech. Accounts record his manuscripts being thrown into the Indrayani; his disappearance in 1650 is commemorated at Dehu. |
| Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj | 1630–1680 | Ruler | Born at Shivneri and crowned at Raigad in 1674, he built a state out of the plateau's fort geography and a revenue administration that assessed land directly rather than through intermediaries. The fort system, the naval stations below the ghats and the Marathi-and-Sanskrit administrative vocabulary he commissioned are the durable parts. |
| Bajirao I | 1700–1740 | Peshwa, commander | Moved the Maratha state's centre of gravity to Pune, built Shaniwar Wada from 1730, and conducted the fast cavalry campaigns that carried Maratha power to the Narmada and beyond. He died at Raverkhedi on the Narmada, aged thirty-nine, on campaign. |
| Jyotirao Phule | 1827–1890 | Social reformer, writer | Opened a school for girls at Pune in 1848 and a school for Mahar and Mang children soon after, opened his household water tank to all castes, and founded the Satyashodhak Samaj in 1873. Gulamgiri (1873) is the first sustained anti-caste polemic written in Marathi. |
| Savitribai Phule | 1831–1897 | Teacher, poet | Born at Naigaon in Satara district; taught in the first schools she and Jyotirao opened, making her among the first Indian women to teach professionally, published the poetry collection Kavya Phule in 1854, and ran a home for widows and abandoned children. She died nursing patients in the plague epidemic at Pune. |
| Chhatrapati Shahu Maharaj of Kolhapur | 1874–1922 | Ruler, reformer | Issued an order in 1902 reserving half the posts in the Kolhapur state administration for non-Brahmin communities — among the earliest such measures anywhere in India — funded hostels by community so rural students could study in the city, and patronised both wrestling and music, including Abdul Karim Khan and the Kolhapur talims. |
| Karmaveer Bhaurao Patil | 1887–1959 | Educationist | Founded the Rayat Shikshan Sanstha in 1919 on an earn-and-learn model in which students worked to pay for their own schooling. It became one of the largest educational institutions in Asia and put schools into dryland talukas that had none. |
| Pandita Ramabai | 1858–1922 | Scholar, reformer | A Sanskrit scholar who converted to Christianity, wrote The High-Caste Hindu Woman (1887), and established the Mukti Mission at Kedgaon in Pune district as a residential community for widows and famine orphans. She also translated the Bible into Marathi from the original languages. |
| Abdul Karim Khan | 1872–1937 | Hindustani vocalist | Settled at Miraj under Sangli patronage and taught there; the Kirana gharana's emphasis on slow, note-by-note swara elaboration and its adoption of Carnatic-influenced phrasing largely date from his work. |
| Bal Gandharva | 1888–1967 | Actor-singer | Born at Nagthane in Sangli district; played the female leads of Marathi Sangeet Natak at a time when women did not act, and set the styles of saree, jewellery and speech that middle-class Maharashtrian women then copied — a stage performer who shaped how his audience dressed. |
| Baburao Painter | 1890–1954 | Film-maker, painter | Founded the Maharashtra Film Company at Kolhapur in 1919, built his own cameras, and made Kolhapur a production centre; V. Shantaram, who went on to found Prabhat and later Rajkamal, began in his workshop. |
Desh के वे लोग जिन्होंने यहाँ के इतिहास, कला, विज्ञान, खेल और सार्वजनिक जीवन को गढ़ा। (15)