Palnitkar

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Palnitkar is one of the many last names used a certain subcaste of Brahmins in India. This subcaste is called Konkanastha Chitpavan.

Palnitkars as most of the Konkanastha Chitpavan Brahmins originate in the Konkan strip located on western seacoast of India about 300–500 miles south of Mumbai. However, Palnitkars have now migrated to almost all the corners of the world.

A large majority of Palnitkars still live in city of Pune and Mumbai in Maharashtra state of India, but there are instances of Palnitkars in cities of Aurangabad Bangalore, Baroda, Hyderabad, Nagpur and many others. Many Palnitkars have also visited foreign countries, settled there and are living there. Shri. Shripatrao Palnitkar was the Chief Justice of Andhra Pradesh High Court. Shri. Madhavrao Palnitkar was Secretary in Maharashtra Govt. Shri. S.D.Palnitkar who retired as Brigadier is a recipient of President's seva medal.Shri. P.D.Palnitkar and Shri. V.V.Palnitkar redired as District judges.Sharad and Bhalchandra childred of Shripatrao Palnitkar are both consultant doctors in Mumbai. Mr. Samir Palnitkar is a renowned personality, and entrepreneur in the computer industry in USA with many books to his credit. Utkarsh Palnitkar, who is a chartered accountant, is a vice president at Earnst and Yound India. Atmaram Palnitkar is the Principal of Dayanand Commerce College at Latur. Dr Devdatt Palnitkar is a Urologist who did the first renal transplant surgery in Marathwada, at Aurangabad, Sanjay Palnitkar is a Ph D in microbiology and is settled in New Jersey, USA and Nilima Palnitkar Bhadbhade is a professor in Law College Pune. Prateek Vishram Palnitkar did his BE Comp Sci from VJTI Mumbai and MS from Stony Brook Univ, NY, and is presently working for Barclays in NY. Aditya Devdatt Palnitkar is doing his BE in computer science at BITS Pilani, Goa Campus. Aikya, a leading Marathi daily from Satara, Maharashtra founded in 1924 as a weekly newspaper by Shri Raobahaddur Kale was taken over by Shri Chandiram Palnitkar. His sons, Shri Sharad Palnitkar & late Shri Suresh Palnitkar transformed it into a daily newspaper.

A book on Dongre family styled as Kulvrattant says that the last name of Palnitkars was Dongre.

Konkan Link for Palnitkar's

About 60 KM outside Mumbai, off Mumbai-Pune Expressway, near Panvel, there is a small village/town named Mohopada. This is where most of the Palnitkars trace their roots to. There is a very old (about 300 yrs.) temple of Shiva just outside Mohopada that was built by then Palnitkars (mostly the 1st one).

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