Bapu Gokhale

Bapu Gokhale was army chief (Senapati) of the Marathas in the Third Anglo-Maratha War.^[1]

Bapu Gokhale
Born	c. 1777
Died	February 19, 1818 Ashti, Maratha Empire (present day Mohol, Maharashtra, India)
Allegiance	Maratha Empire
Years of service	1812 - 19 February 1818
Rank	Senapati
Battles / wars	Third Anglo-Maratha War

Early life

Gokhale was born Narhar Ganesh Gokhale into the Chitpavan brahmin Gokhale gharana of Tale Khajan.^[2][3]

Career

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.^[1] 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.^{[4][5] [6]}

Family and descendants

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 after her husband's death.^[7] He was also a great-uncle of Dwarka Gokhale, wife of Chandrashekhar Agashe.^[8]

See also

• Balaji Pant Natu
• Maratha Empire

Notes

1. Duff 1921, pp. 468–469.
2. बापू गोखले
3. Pathak, Gangadhar (1978). Gokhale Kulavruttanta (in Marathi) (2nd ed.). Pune: Gokhale Kulavruttanta Kāryakārī Maṇdaḷa. p. 1286. LCCN 81902590.
4. Duff 1921, p. 491.
5. https://cultural.maharashtra.gov.in/english/gazetteer/Solapur/places_Ashti.html
6. "आष्टीची नरभूमी आजही दुर्लक्षित, आष्टीच्या लढाईला २०० वर्षे पूर्ण, आष्टीकर जोपासताहेत खुणा". 20 February 2018.
7. Pathak, Gangadhar (1978). Gokhale Kulavruttanta (in Marathi) (2nd ed.). Pune: Gokhale Kulavruttanta Kāryakārī Maṇdaḷa. p. 1286. LCCN 81902590.
8. Karandikar (1992), p. 8.

References

• Duff, James Grant (1921), Stephen Meredyth Edwardes (ed.), A History of the Mahrattas, vol. 2, London: H. Milford, Oxford University Press, OCLC 61585379
• Karandikar, Shakuntala (1992). विश्वस्त [Viśvasta] (in Marathi) (1st ed.). Pune: Śrī Prakāśana. ISBN 9781532345012. LCCN 2017322865. OCLC 992168228 – via Bowker.
• Maharashtra government place history gazette for Ashti
• Naravane, M.S (2006), Battles of the honourable East India Company: making of the Raj, APH Publishing, pp. 78–105, ISBN 978-81-313-0034-3