इस क्षेत्र का अनुवाद अभी इस भाषा में नहीं हुआ है, इसलिए यह अंग्रेज़ी में दिखाया जा रहा है।
Khandesh · Deccan Inland Plateau
लोग
| नाम | वर्ष | क्षेत्र | किसलिए मशहूर |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bahinabai Chaudhari | 1880–1951 | Poet | A farming woman of Jalgaon district who was never taught to read or write and composed songs in Ahirani while working. Her son Sopandev Chaudhari transcribed what he had memorised and published the collection after her death; it entered the Marathi canon and school curriculum, and remains the only body of Ahirani verse with a national readership. |
| Bhaskara II (Bhaskaracharya) | 1114–1185 | Mathematician and astronomer | Author of the Siddhanta Shiromani, completed in 1150, whose Lilavati section became the standard Indian arithmetic text for centuries. An inscription attributed to his grandson Changadeva records the family lineage and places them at Patan, near Chalisgaon in this region, where a math was endowed to teach his work. |
| Muktabai | 13th century | Poet-saint | The youngest of the four siblings of the Dnyaneshwar household and a composer of abhangas in her own right, including the exchange known as the Taatiche Abhang. Local tradition places her disappearance near Muktainagar, which is named for her. |
| Sane Guruji (Pandurang Sadashiv Sane) | 1899–1950 | Writer, teacher, activist | Born in the Konkan but formed by Khandesh — he taught at Amalner, organised there, and wrote Shyamchi Aai, one of the most widely read Marathi books ever published. In May 1947 he fasted for ten days at Pandharpur to press for the Vitthal temple's opening to all castes. |
| Bhalchandra Nemade | Born 1938 | Novelist, critic | Born at Sangvi in Jalgaon district. Kosla (1963) changed the register of the Marathi novel by writing in unliterary speech, and his later work argues explicitly for regional rootedness — deshivad — against cosmopolitan literary models. Awarded the Jnanpith in 2014. |
| Bhavarlal Jain | 1937–2016 | Industrialist | Founded what became Jain Irrigation Systems at Jalgaon in 1963. Its micro-irrigation and tissue-culture banana programmes are the direct cause of the district's banana yields and of the shift from flood irrigation to drip across the valley; he also endowed Gandhi Teerth at Jalgaon. |
| Malik Raja and Nasir Khan Faruqi | Rule from 1382; Burhanpur founded 1399 | Rulers | Founders of the Faruqi sultanate of Khandesh, which held the Tapi valley for over two centuries from Thalner and then Burhanpur, with Asirgarh as its stronghold. Their rule is the source of one reading of the region's name, from the Khan title they carried. |
| Sopandev Chaudhari | 1907–1982 | Poet and editor | Bahinabai's son, himself a poet, who wrote down his mother's songs from memory and brought them to publication with Acharya Atre's advocacy. Without him the language's best-known literature would not exist in written form. |
| Suresh Khanapurkar | Born 1943 | Geologist | Developed the Shirpur pattern of groundwater recharge in Dhule district — widening and deepening stream beds and building check dams keyed to the basalt's water-bearing layers — which raised water tables across a cluster of chronically dry villages and has since been copied elsewhere in Maharashtra. |
| M. H. Hasham Premji | 1902–1966 | Industrialist | Founded Western India Vegetable Products at Amalner in 1945 to press groundnut and cottonseed oil — the region's two oilseeds. The company later diversified and became Wipro. |
| Bhil and Pawra badwas | — | Ritual specialists | The hereditary ritual practitioners of the Satpura communities, who conduct the Pithora wall painting rite, the healing and vow ceremonies, and the oral genealogies. They are the reason the slope's tradition survives without any written record. |
Khandesh के वे लोग जिन्होंने यहाँ के इतिहास, कला, विज्ञान, खेल और सार्वजनिक जीवन को गढ़ा। (11)