Ganesh Vyankatesh Joshi

Ganesh Vyankatesh Joshi was an economist.

Ganesh Vyankatesh Joshi was born at Miraj onJune 1851. The family is known as the Utturkar family in that province, as it held hereditary lands in the village of Uttur in the Inchalkaranji State. Mr.Joshis ancestors came up from Varoda in the Ratnagiri District, and settled at Uttur towards the close of the 18th Century. The Patwardhan Sirdars then ruling over that part of the country conferred a grant of lands on the Joshi family in order that it should settle at Uttur and look to the religious wants of the village as Vaidic Brahmins. Mr. Joshis grandfather Ballal Raghunath was in the Military Service of the Patwardhan Sirdars. In 1818 Ballal Raghunath was sent by the Patwardhan Sirdars to Poona to render military aid to Bajirao, the last Peishwa and in the conflict which subsequently ensued between the Peishwas and the British, he took no small part. From Ballal Raghunaths time, time the Joshi family settled at Miraj. Mr.160Joshis father was the Treasury Officer of the Miraj State

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