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'''Gadkari''' is a surname native to the [[India]]n state of [[Maharashtra]]. Gadkari surname is found among the Hindu [[CKP]]<ref>{{cite news | title = chandraseniya kayastha prabhus aim for better community connect| url = http://www.dnaindia.com/mumbai/report-chandraseniya-kayastha-prabhu-s-aim-for-better-community-connect-1935881|quote=CKP as a community has been known for its “writing and fighting skills”. Some prominent faces that it boasts as members are [...] Ram Ganesh Gadkari [...]}}</ref> and [[Deshastha Brahmin]]<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.thehindubusinessline.com/blink/meet/Obediently-yours/article20900332.ece|title=Obidiently yours|publisher=The Hindu|accessdate=31 October 2014|author=Kumar Ketkar}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=92F7DwAAQBAJ&pg=PT20|title=
INDIA'S NEW CAPITALISTS: Caste, Business, and Industry in a Modern Nation|author=Harish Damodaran|publisher=Hachette UK|accessdate=25 November 2018|page=20|quote=The Mhaiskars are Chitpavan, while Gadkari is a Deshastha Brahmin}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|title=Son Of The Sangh|url=http://www.caravanmagazine.in/reportage/son-of-the-sangh|accessdate=1 April 2018|publisher=The Caravan|quote=NITIN GADKARI WAS BORN in 1957, to Jairam and Bhanutai Gadkari. The Gadkaris were a Deshastha Brahmin family of modest means, with some agricultural land in Dhapewada village, near Nagpur. They lived in an area of old Nagpur called Mahal, close to the RSS’s headquarters.}}</ref> communities.<ref>{{cite book|title=Maharashtra State Gazetteers: General Series: Maharashtra, land and its people(CHAPTER 5—ORGANISATION OF SPACE)|url=https://gazetteers.maharashtra.gov.in/cultural.maharashtra.gov.in/english/gazetteer/Language%20and%20Literature/chapter_v.pdf|publisher=Directorate of Government Print., Stationery and Publications|year=1968|page=136|quote='''There was also a gadkari (head of the civil administration of the fort and for tax-collection from the surrounding villages) who was generally a Kayastha''' and a '''Brahmin who was the Temple priest, letter-writer etc'''. Sometimes, people of some other caste held these posts.}}</ref>

==Etymology==
The name Gadkari is believed to be a combination of two words (Gad and Kari). Gad means a fort and Kari means one who maintains or protects it. So Gadkari means a person who protects the fort.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://archive.siasat.com/news/gadkari-means-protector-fort-bjp-56699/|title=Gadkari means protector of fort: BJP|publisher=The Siasat Daily|accessdate=18 November 2009}}</ref>

==Gadkari as a title==
Gadkari was a historical title given mostly in [[Maharashtra]], to a person who was appointed to protect the fort.<ref>{{cite book|title=Mutiny at the Margins: New Perspectives on the Indian Uprising of 1857: Volume I: Anticipations and Experiences in the Locality|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-xZBDwAAQBAJ|publisher=SAGE Publishing|author=Crispin Bates|accessdate=26 March 2013|page=178}}</ref>

==Notable people==
* [[Ram Ganesh Gadkari]] (1885-1919), Marathi poet
* [[Chandrasekhar Gadkari]] (1928-1998), Indian test cricketer
* [[Madhav Yeshwant Gadkari]] (1928–2006), Indian Journalist, [[Padma Shri]] award recipient
* [[Nitin Gadkari]] (born 1957), India's [[Ministry of Road Transport and Highways|Minister of Road Transport and Highways]]
* [[Sandesh Gadkari]] (born 1987), Indian cricketer
* [[Jui Gadkari]] (born 1988), Indian actress

==Other==
*''[[Gadkari (film)|Gadkari]]'' – 2023 Marathi language film based on Nitin Gadkari

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