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Consider including the following personalities :

Brigadier Chitaranjan Sawant
S D Gaonkar, former chairman of Karnataka Legislative Council
Anubha Bhonsle, CNN-IBN journalist and TV Personality
Gaurav Sawant, noted war journalist, Headlines today journalist

Please create pages for them and find reliable sources to Identify their caste. Thanks-Acharya63 (talk) 03:49, 7 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]

This page needs major cleanup

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1.Most names are unsourced. 2.Some names are obviously from the Maratha community (Shivaji, Sharad Pawar, etc. ) but many last names like Desai, Sawant, and even Patil are common with other communities(Patil is also found in Deshasthas - very rare though - and in Lingayats). 3. Many persons are living and unless they self-identify, it is a violation on wikipedia policy. Acharya63 (talk) 03:04, 7 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]

I cleaned up a few names that are common to other castes and people just added them based on last names they were familiar with. But I think at least 70% of the names on this page are not sourced or violate wikipedia policy of self-identifying. Needs major work...Acharya63 (talk) 08:42, 7 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]
I will do more cleanup after two weeks unless someone else has the time to do it prior to that-Acharya63 (talk) 09:43, 7 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]

probably needs a new title

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Instead of "List of Maratha people" it should probably be called "List of people from the Maratha caste" because sometimes the word Maratha is used to denote Marathi speaking people. -Acharya63 (talk) 03:31, 7 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]