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{{Infobox military person<br />
| name = Bapu Gokhale<br />
| image = Senapati Bapu Gokhale.jpg<br />
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| birth_date = Year 1777<br />
| death_date = February 19, 1818<br />
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| death_place = Ashti, [[Maratha Empire]] (present day [[Mohol]], [[Maharashtra]], [[India]])<br />
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| allegiance = [[Maratha Empire]]<br />
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| serviceyears = 1812 - 1818<br />
| rank = General<br />
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| battles = [[Third Anglo-Maratha War]]<br />
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'''Bapu Gokhale''' was army chief (Senapati) of the [[Marathas]] in the [[Third Anglo-Maratha War]].{{sfn|Duff|1921|pp=468–469}}<br />
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==Early life==<br />
Gokhale was born Narhar Ganesh Gokhale into the [[Chitpavan]] [[brahmin]] [[Gokhale]] ''[[Noble house (term)|gharana]]'' of Tale Khajan.<ref>[http://ketkardnyankosh.com/index.php/2012-09-06-10-42-09/7479-2013-02-09-07-52-56 बापू गोखले]</ref><ref>{{cite book|last=Pathak|first=Gangadhar|author-link=Gangadhar Pathak|title=Gokhale Kulavruttanta|date=1978|publisher=[[Gokhale]] [[Kulavruttanta]] Kāryakārī Maṇdaḷa|location=[[Pune]]|pages=1286|edition=2nd|url=https://catalog.loc.gov/vwebv/search?searchArg1=81902590&argType1=phrase&searchCode1=K010&searchType=2&combine2=and&searchArg2=&argType2=all&searchCode2=GKEY&combine3=and&searchArg3=&argType3=all&searchCode3=GKEY&location=all&place=all&type=all&language=all&recCount=10|language=mr|lccn=81902590}}</ref><br />
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==Career==<br />
Gokhale was appointed commander-in -chief by Peshwa [[Baji Rao II]] with the preparations of the [[Third Anglo-Maratha War]] against the East India Company in 1818.{{sfn|Duff|1921|pp=468–469}} He died on February 19, 1818 during the battle of Ashti (now in [[Mohol]] taluka, Solapur, Maharashtra) while defending the Peshwa from the company forces. He died with a sword in his hand just as he had wished to have preferred to.{{sfn|Duff|1921|p=491}}<ref>[https://cultural.maharashtra.gov.in/english/gazetteer/Solapur/places_Ashti.html]</ref><br />
<ref>[https://www.lokmat.com/solapur/ashtis-nephew-still-ignored-200-years-full-ashtis-war-marking-ashtikar/]<br />
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==Family and Descendants==<br />
Gokhale had two wives. The first wife had two children. Their first child died early. Their other son, Gopal was killed during the Battle of Ashti. He did not have any children with his second wife Yamunabai. She went to [[Satara (city)|Satara]] after her husband's death.<ref>{{cite book|last=Pathak|first=Gangadhar|author-link=Gangadhar Pathak|title=Gokhale Kulavruttanta|date=1978|publisher=[[Gokhale]] [[Kulavruttanta]] Kāryakārī Maṇdaḷa|location=[[Pune]]|pages=1286|edition=2nd|url=https://catalog.loc.gov/vwebv/search?searchArg1=81902590&argType1=phrase&searchCode1=K010&searchType=2&combine2=and&searchArg2=&argType2=all&searchCode2=GKEY&combine3=and&searchArg3=&argType3=all&searchCode3=GKEY&location=all&place=all&type=all&language=all&recCount=10|language=mr|lccn=81902590}}</ref> He was also a great-uncle of Dwarka Gokhale, wife of [[Chandrashekhar Agashe]].{{sfnp|Karandikar|1990|p=8}}<br />
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==See also==<br />
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*[[Balaji Pant Natu]]<br />
*[[Maratha Empire]]<br />
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==Notes==<br />
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==References==<br />
* {{citation|pages=78–105|title=Battles of the honourable East India Company: making of the Raj|isbn=978-81-313-0034-3|publisher=APH Publishing|year=2006|first=M.S|last=Naravane|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=bxsa3jtHoCEC&q=9788131300343}}<br />
* {{Citation|title=A History of the Mahrattas|first= James Grant|last=Duff|volume=2|publisher=H. Milford, Oxford University Press|location=London|oclc=61585379|year=1921|editor=Stephen Meredyth Edwardes|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=e_Pc4ZQMoy0C&q=A+history+of+the+Mahrattas,+Volume+2&pg=PA1}}<br />
* {{citation | title= Maharashtra government place history gazette for Ashti | url=https://cultural.maharashtra.gov.in/english/gazetteer/Solapur/places_Ashti.html }}<br />
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