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'''Gadhavi''' ([[Hindi]]: गढ़वी; [[Gujarati language|Gujarati]]: ગઢવી) is an honorific [[title]] of the [[Charan]]s of [[Gujarat]].<ref>{{Cite book |last=Avikunthak |first=Ashish |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=OPw7EAAAQBAJ |title=Bureaucratic Archaeology: State, Science and Past in Postcolonial India |date=2022-02-03 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |isbn=978-1-316-51239-5 |language=en |quote=Gadhvi is an honorific title for a bardic caste of Gujarat called the Charans—a non-mendicant upper caste (not, however, Brahmins or Kshatriya) who have exerted considerable influence on the local polity since medieval times. |access-date=2022-03-26 |archive-date=2022-01-25 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220125005520/https://books.google.com/books?id=OPw7EAAAQBAJ&newbks=0&hl=en |url-status=live }}</ref> In earlier times, as some Charans were owners or governors of [[Fortification|forts]], i.e. ''Gadh'', they came to be known as Gadhavi.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Lal |first=R. B. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=4Cy_-FXW9BQC |title=Gujarat |date=2003 |publisher=Popular Prakashan |isbn=978-81-7991-104-4 |language=en |quote=The Charan are also called Gadhvi. As they were owners of Ghadh's (forts) in olden days, they are also known as Gadhvi. |access-date=2022-03-26 |archive-date=2022-01-02 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220102113909/https://books.google.com/books?id=4Cy_-FXW9BQC&newbks=0&hl=en |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last=Meghani |first=Zaverchand Kalidas |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=n8RjAAAAMAAJ |title=A Ruby Shattered: A Collection of Love-legends in Folk-balladry Form of Saurashtra |date=2003 |publisher=Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan |language=en |quote=GADHAVI: The governor of a fort (litt.). Charans were earlier known as Gadhavis. |access-date=2022-03-26 |archive-date=2022-01-12 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220112034252/https://books.google.com/books?id=n8RjAAAAMAAJ&newbks=0&hl=en |url-status=live }}</ref> It is synonymous with Charan and is used as a surname.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Tambs-Lyche |first=Harald |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5ntuAAAAMAAJ |title=Power, Profit, and Poetry: Traditional Society in Kathiawar, Western India |date=1996-12-31 |publisher=Manohar Publishers & Distributors |isbn=978-81-7304-176-1 |language=en |quote=Gadhavi is synonymous with Charan; it is also Mamodiya’s surname, and a common one within the caste. |access-date=2022-03-26 |archive-date=2022-02-10 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220210040114/https://books.google.com/books?id=5ntuAAAAMAAJ&newbks=0&hl=en |url-status=live }}</ref> It is also spelled as '''Gadhvi''' or '''Gadvi'''.<ref>{{Cite book |last1=Krishan |first1=Dr Gopal |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ahuAAAAAMAAJ |title=Morphogenetic Variation: A Comparative Profile of Three Tribes of Gujarat |last2=India.) |first2=M. Haque (Senior Technical Assistant, Anthropological Survey of |last3=Mukherjee |first3=A. |date=1994 |publisher=Anthropological Survey of India |isbn=978-81-85579-13-9 |language=en |quote=It is also said that the title 'Gadvi' is applied to Charans because they were often the owner of 'Gadhas' (forts). |access-date=2022-03-26 |archive-date=2022-03-26 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220326214720/https://books.google.com/books?id=ahuAAAAAMAAJ&newbks=0&hl=en |url-status=live }}</ref>

== Etymology ==
The word Gadhavi has been derived from semi-[[Prakrit]] and semi-[[Sanskrit]] words ''Gadha'' (fort) and ''Pati'' (master), i.e. keeper of a fort. Masters of fort were called Gadhapatis which changed to Gadhavi through the Prakrit Gadna-vai.<ref>{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_Au2AAAAIAAJ |title=Prāci-jyotī; Digest of Indological Studies |date=1990 |pages=70 |language=en |access-date=2022-03-26 |archive-date=2022-03-26 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220326214725/https://books.google.com/books?id=_Au2AAAAIAAJ&newbks=0&hl=en |url-status=live }}</ref>

== Notable people ==

* [[Isudan Gadhvi]]
* [[Jigardan Gadhavi]]
* [[Sanjay Gadhvi]]
* [[Kirtidan Gadhvi]]
* [[Bhikhudan Gadhvi]]
* [[Aditya Gadhvi]]
* [[Dadudan Gadhvi]]
* [[Mukesh Gadhvi]]
* [[B. K. Gadhvi]]
* [[Shambhudan Gadhvi]]
* [[Milind Gadhavi]]
* [[Pingalshi Brahmanand Gadhvi]]
* [[Hemu Gadhavi]]

== See also ==

* [[Barhath]]
* [[Kaviraj|Kaviraja]]

== References ==
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