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| '''Surname'''
| Pisal Deshmukh
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|'''Caste'''
| [[Maratha]]
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| '''Lineage'''
| Claimed [[Suryavansha]] (Solar Clan)
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|'''Heraldic Title:'''
| Ravivarma<ref>'''Maratha Kshatriyancha Itihaas''', edition 1929 By K.B. Deshmukh. {{in lang|mr}}</ref>
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|'''Religion:'''
| [[Hinduism]].<ref name="WrightPress2006">{{cite book|author1=Thomas Edmund Farnsworth Wright|author2=Oxford University Press|title=A dictionary of world history|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2QcZAQAAIAAJ&pg=PA401|access-date=15 May 2011|date=15 November 2006|publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=978-0-19-920247-8|pages=401–|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140103093318/http://books.google.com/books?id=2QcZAQAAIAAJ&pg=PA401|archive-date=3 January 2014|url-status=live}}</ref>
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| '''Original kingdom'''
| [[ozarde wai, Maharashtra|Wai]]
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| '''Other kingdoms'''
| Wai, Satara Villages
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|'''Clan god'''
| Mahadev
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|'''[[Devak]]'''
| [[Pancha-pallava]]<ref name="Betham1996">{{cite book|author=R. M. Betham|title=Maráthas and Dekhani Musalmáns|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6mATx3PBupsC&pg=PA152|access-date=7 May 2011|date=1 December 1996|publisher=Asian Educational Services|isbn=978-81-206-1204-4|pages=152–}}</ref>
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|'''[[Gotra]]'''
| Kaushik
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| '''Locations'''
| [[Maharashtra]], [[Madhya Pradesh]], [[Gujarat]] and [[Goa]].
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|'''Languages'''
| [[Marathi language|Marathi]], [[Hindi]], [[Sanskrit]].
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'''Pisal''' is surname mainly found amongst the [[Maratha clan system|96 Maratha clans]].

== Origin ==
Pisal clans, like other Maratha clans, claim a mythic origin. Pisals claim traces their Descendancy Back to the Suryavanshi Chalukyas.<ref>The tribes and castes of Bombay: Volume 3 By Reginald Edward Enthoven</ref> Popular people with this surname include Madanrao Pisal, former minister in Maharashtra.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/mumbai/Former-minister-Madanrao-Pisal-dies/articleshow/16932743.cms|title=Former minister Madanrao Pisal dies {{!}} Mumbai News - Times of India|last=S|last2=Oct 23|first2=eep Ashar {{!}} TNN {{!}}|website=The Times of India|language=en|access-date=2020-01-10|last3=2012|last4=Ist|first4=23:20|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180702190238/https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/mumbai/Former-minister-Madanrao-Pisal-dies/articleshow/16932743.cms|archive-date=2018-07-02|url-status=live}}</ref>

==History==
[[Pisal]] were [[Deshmukh|Deshmukhs]] of two hundred villages of [[Wai, Maharashtra|Wai]] ([[Satara District]]) under the [[Deccan sultanates|Sultanate of Deccan]].<ref>Proceedings of the Indian History Congress, Volume 60 By Indian History Congress ,Page no.177.</ref> Later when [[Shivaji]] created the [[Maratha Empire]], they joined him as ''bargir'' and ''shiledar'' warriors. The Pisal deshmukh were powerful sardars of [[Shivaji|Chhatrapati Shivaji]], [[Sambhaji]], and [[Rajaram Chhatrapati|Rajaram]].

On 19 October 1689, Suryajirao Pisal was involved in the defeat of Marathas and [[Mughal Empire|Mughals]] arrested Maharani Yesubai and Prince Shahu, the wife and young son of [[Sambhaji]], respectively. The allegations levied on him were all false and he proved to be instrumental in commencing a pact of Raigadh between Marathas and the Mughals at that crucial period<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1hM9AAAAMAAJ|title=The Rise and Fall of the Maratha Empire|last=Nadkarnia|first=Rajaram Vyankatesh|publisher=Popular Prakashan|year=1966|language=en}}</ref>{{Page needed|date=January 2020}}{{Additional citation needed|date=January 2020}}

Pisals also took an active part in building the [[Maratha Empire]], including serving in the Third [[Battle of Panipat (1761)|Battle of Panipat]] in the year of 1761. Chatrapati Rajaram's Daughter was married to son of Suryaji Pisal.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=U5FdJnnDhSwC&printsec=frontcover&dq=Creative+pasts:+historical+memory+and+identity+in+western+India,+1700-1960&source=bl&ots=SOxoDOITiS&sig=Z_lAQmCPWyeZDWU_HwR6vNyxRQk&hl=en&sa=X&ei=UR2AUM-rGsqP0QH-kICwBA&ved=0CC0Q6AEwAA Creative pasts: historical memory and identity in western India, 1700-1960] By [[Prachi Deshpande]]. Pg 61</ref>

==See also==
* [[Maratha Empire]]
* [[List of Maratha dynasties and states]]
* [[Maratha War of Independence]]
* [[Maratha clan system]]

== References ==
{{Reflist}}

[[Category:Maratha clans]]
[[Category:Surnames]]

Pisal - Revision history

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