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{{Short description|Indian jeweller}}<br />
{{hatnote|For the politician, see [[Anant Gadgil]].}} <br />
{{Infobox person<br />
| name = Anant "Dajikaka" Gadgil<br />
| native_name = दाजीकाका गाडगीळ<br />
| native_name_lang = [[Marathi]]<br />
| birth_date = September 11, 1915<br />
| birth_place = [[Sangli]], [[Bombay Presidency]], [[British Raj]]<br />
| death_date = {{Death date and age|2014|1|10|1915|9|11}}<br />
| death_place = [[Pune]], [[Maharashtra]], [[India]]<br />
| occupation = [[Jeweller]], [[industrialist]], [[writer]]<br />
| known_for = [[Organizational founder|Founding]] [[P. N. Gadgil Jewellers]] & Company in Pune in 1958<br />
}}<br />
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'''Anant''' "'''Dajikaka'''" '''Gadgil''' ({{lang-mr|दाजीकाका गाडगीळ}}; September 11, 1915 – January 10, 2014) was an Indian [[jeweller]], [[industrialist]] and [[writer]]. He is best known for [[Organizational founder|founding]] the [[P. N. Gadgil Jewellers]] & Company in [[Pune]] in 1958.<ref>{{cite news |title=दाजीकाका गाडगीळ |url=https://www.loksatta.com/sampadkiya-news/personality-dajikaka-gadgil-344263/ |work=[[Loksatta]] |date=January 13, 2014 |language=mr}}</ref><br />
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== Early life and family ==<br />
Gadgil was born on September 11, 1915, in [[Sangli]], to Ganesh and Yashoda Gadgil (née Mahajan), of the [[Gadgil]] ''[[Noble house (term)|gharana]]'' of Dongare-Kondhe. His mother was his father's third wife, and Gadgil had two sisters. He had three [[half sibling]]s through his father's second and fifth marriages. Gadgil married Tarabai Abhyankar, and the couple had two daughters and a son. She would adopt the name Kamalabai upon marriage. He was a great-grandson of [[Ganesh Gadgil]], and a nephew of [[Purshottam Narayan Gadgil]].<ref name="Joshi">{{cite book |last1=Joshi |first1=P. K. |title=[[Gadgil]] [[Kulavruttanta]] |trans-title=The Gadgil Family Genealogy Almanac |date=1989 |location=[[Pune]] |language=mr |pages=85–97}}</ref><br />
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== Career ==<br />
Gadgil initially began work as a [[jeweller]] at the [[P. N. Gadgil Jewellers]] & Sons store in [[Sangli]] in 1938, moving to Pune to set up a branch of the family business at Laxmi Road in 1958.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Deshpande |first1=Renuka |title=Gadgil Jewellers 179-year-old journey from footpath to international showrooms |url=https://www.dnaindia.com/mumbai/report-gadgil-jewellers-179-year-old-journey-from-footpath-to-international-showrooms-1586102 |work=[[Daily News and Analysis]] |date=September 11, 2011 |location=[[Pune]] |language=en}}</ref> During his lifetime, he was lauded for his business acumen and philanthropic work by his contemporaries and the press,<ref>{{cite news |title=P.N.Gadgil Jewellers founder 'Dajikaka' dies of old age |work=[[Saam TV]] |date=January 11, 2014 |language=en}}</ref> most notably for surviving his business through [[The Gold (Control) Act, 1968|The Gold Act of 1968]], and [[fundraising]] for victims of the [[1993 Latur earthquake]].<ref name="MT">{{cite news |last1=Juvekar |first1=Rohan |title=दाजीकाका गाडगीळ यांचे निधन |url=https://maharashtratimes.com/maharashtra/pune-news/dajikaka-gadgil-died/articleshow/28629613.cms |work=[[Maharashtra Times]] |date=January 10, 2014 |language=mr}}</ref><br />
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Gadgil was the recipient of several awards throughout his career; most notably being lauded by the [[Pune Municipal Corporation]] on several occasions, receiving the Rotary Excellence Award from the [[Rotary Club]] of Pune, and was awarded an honorary [[fellowship]] by the [[World Gold Council]].<ref name="Joshi"/><ref name="MT"/> In 2007, he published an autobiography entitled ''Think Pure...''.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Gadgil |first1=Dajikaka |title=Think Pure ... |date=2007 |publisher=Ameya Prakashan |isbn=978-81-903514-7-8 |url=https://www.google.co.in/books/edition/Think_Pure/oc1X2Hm-83IC?hl=en&gbpv=0 |language=en}}</ref> In 2009, he co-authored a book in [[Marathi language|Marathi]] on the [[Ganges]] river entitled ''Ganga''.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Gadgil |first1=Dajikaka |last2=Halic |first2=Julian |title=Ganga |date=2009 |publisher=Ameya Prakashan |isbn=978-81-903514-4-7 |url=https://www.google.co.in/books/edition/Ganga/5uWhSQAACAAJ?hl=en |language=mr}}</ref><br />
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== Death and legacy ==<br />
Gadgil died on January 10, 2014, aged 98, in [[Pune]].<ref>{{cite news |last1=Sawant |first1=Rajesh |title=दाजीकाका गाडगीळ यांचे वृद्धापकाळाने निधन {{!}} |url=https://prahaar.in/%E0%A4%A6%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%9C%E0%A5%80%E0%A4%95%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%95%E0%A4%BE-%E0%A4%97%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%A1%E0%A4%97%E0%A5%80%E0%A4%B3-%E0%A4%AF%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%82%E0%A4%9A%E0%A5%87-%E0%A4%B5%E0%A5%83/ |work=[[Prahaar (newspaper)|Prahaar]] |language=mr |date=January 10, 2014}}</ref> He was succeeded in business by his son and grandson.<ref>{{cite news |title=P N Gadgil Jewellers founder 'Dajikaka' dead |url=https://indianexpress.com/article/cities/pune/p-n-gadgil-jewellers-founder-dajikaka-dead/ |work=[[The Indian Express]] |date=January 11, 2014 |language=en}}</ref> In late 2014, the Dajikaka Gadgil Gold Museum was opened at the P. N. Gadgil Jewellers store in [[Hadapsar]].<ref>{{cite web |title=Dajikaka Gadgil Gold Museum |url=https://www.museumsofindia.org/museum/548/dajikaka-gadgil-gold-museum |website=Museums of India |access-date=August 23, 2021 |language=en}}</ref> In August 2016, he became the namesake of the Dajikaka Karandak, an inter-collegiate [[one-act play]] competition.<ref>{{cite news |title=Second edition of Pune's Dajikaka Karandak to break language barrier |url=https://www.hindustantimes.com/pune-news/second-edition-of-pune-s-dajikaka-karandak-to-break-language-barrier/story-4lSlWGkqjtDrOHM4ROvkfO.html |work=[[Hindustan Times]] |date=August 6, 2017 |language=en}}</ref><br />
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== List of works ==<br />
*{{cite book |last1=Gadgil |first1=Dajikaka |title=Think pure ... |date=2007 |isbn=978-81-903514-7-8 |url=http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/463682583 |language=English |publisher=Ameya Prakashan |location=[[Pune]]|oclc=463682583 }}<br />
*{{cite book |last1=Gadgil |first1=Dajikaka |last2=Halic |first2=Julian |title=Ganga |date=2009 |publisher=Ameya Prakashan |isbn=978-81-903514-4-7 |url=https://www.google.co.in/books/edition/Ganga/5uWhSQAACAAJ?hl=en |language=mr}}<br />
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