इस क्षेत्र का अनुवाद अभी इस भाषा में नहीं हुआ है, इसलिए यह अंग्रेज़ी में दिखाया जा रहा है।
South Konkan · Western Coastal Strip
लोग
| नाम | वर्ष | क्षेत्र | किसलिए मशहूर |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bal Gangadhar Tilak | 1856–1920 | Politics and journalism | Born at Chikhali in Ratnagiri district and schooled partly in Ratnagiri town, where his birthplace is kept as a memorial. He turned the Ganesh festival from a household observance into a public, organised one — the single decision that most shaped how this region's biggest festival now looks. |
| Dhondo Keshav Karve | 1858–1962 | Education and social reform | From Murud in Dapoli taluka; married a widow in 1893 when doing so cost a man his social standing, founded a home and then a school for widows, and in 1916 established India's first university for women. Awarded the Bharat Ratna in 1958, in his hundredth year. |
| Keshavsut | 1866–1905 | Poetry | Krishnaji Keshav Damle, born at Malgund near Ganpatipule, is treated as the founder of modern Marathi poetry — the point at which the language's verse stopped being devotional or courtly and became personal and secular. His house at Malgund is a memorial. |
| Sane Guruji | 1899–1950 | Writing and social reform | Pandurang Sadashiv Sane, born at Palgad in Dapoli taluka; wrote Shyamchi Aai, among the most widely read Marathi books ever published, and fasted in 1947 to force the opening of the Pandharpur temple to all castes. |
| Mangesh Padgaonkar | 1929–2015 | Poetry | Born at Vengurla; one of the three poets whose recital-and-song performances in the 1960s and 1970s took Marathi poetry to a mass audience outside the literary establishment. |
| Machhindra Kambli | — | Theatre | Actor and producer whose staging of Gangaram Gavankar's Vastraharan ran for thousands of performances and made Malvani a language of the commercial Marathi stage rather than a comic accent within it. |
| Gangaram Gavankar | — | Playwriting | Wrote Vastraharan, a play about a village troupe trying to stage a mythological, entirely in Malvani. It is the reason a generation of Malvani speakers stopped apologising for their speech. |
| Parshuram Gangavane | — | Chitrakathi and puppetry | Kept the Thakar Chitrakathi and puppetry traditions of Pinguli alive through decades when there was no audience for them, trained his family in the forms, and built a museum and performance space in the village around the surviving pothis. Nationally honoured for the work. |
| Madhu Dandavate | 1924–2005 | Politics | Represented Rajapur in Ratnagiri district in Parliament for five terms; as railway minister he pushed the sanction of the Konkan Railway, the single decision that changed this region's relationship to the rest of the country, and introduced the cushioned second-class sleeper berth that every Indian traveller has since slept on. |
| B. R. Ambedkar | 1891–1956 | Social reform, law and the Constitution | Born at Mhow into a Mahar family whose village was Ambadawe in Mandangad taluka on this coast, in the military service tradition that offered one of the few routes out of the Konkan's caste order. The village keeps a memorial, and the region's rigid land tenure and its army recruitment are both part of the background to his politics. |
South Konkan के वे लोग जिन्होंने यहाँ के इतिहास, कला, विज्ञान, खेल और सार्वजनिक जीवन को गढ़ा। (10)