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{{Short description|Indian industrialist (1916–2000)}}
{{Use Indian English|date=February 2023}}
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{{Infobox officeholder
| name = Raosaheb Gogte
| image =
| caption =
| birth_date = {{Birth date|1916|09|16|df=y}}
| birth_place = [[Tembhu]], [[Bombay Presidency]], British India
| death_date = {{Death date and age|2000|2|26|1916|9|16|df=y}}
| death_place = [[Belgaum]], Karnataka, India
| office1 = Founder and Managing Director of the [[Gogte Group]]
| term_start1 = 20 July 1967
| term_end1 = 26 February 2000
| predecessor1 =
| successor1 =
| occupation = Industrialist, philanthropist, [[educationist]], lawyer
| alma_mater =
| spouse = {{marriage|Ushatai Chiplunkar|1943}}
| children = 3
}}

'''Balkrishna Mahadev Gogte''' ([[IAST]]: '''Bāḷakr̥shṇa Mahādeva Gogaṭe'''; 16 September 1916 – 26 February 2000), known colloquially as '''Raosaheb Gogte''' (IAST: '''Rāvasāheba Gogaṭe'''), was an Indian lawyer, industrialist, philanthropist and educationist.

Gogte was the founder of the [[Gogte Group]] of companies, involved in mining, [[minerals]], [[salts]] and textiles. He gave his name to the [[Gogte Institute of Technology]], Gogte College of Commerce, the Gogte Hall at the [[Shivaji Park|Shivaji Park Gymkhana]] in [[Dadar]], [[Mumbai]], the Gogte Suite at the Oberoi Hotel in Mumbai, the Gogte Hall at the [[Belgaum District|Belgaum Chamber of Commerce]], and the Gogte Circle in Belgaum.

== Biography ==
=== Early life, family and education: 1916–1936 ===
Gogte was born on 16 September 1916 at [[Tembhu]],{{sfn|Kamath|1991|pp=1–2}} at the time a part of the [[Bombay Presidency]],{{sfn|Kamath|1991|p=9}} to Dr. Mahadev Gogte (1891–1953) and Kamlabai Gogte (née Ambutai Latey).{{sfn|Kamath|1991|pp=8, 10}}<ref>{{cite book|title=Gogte Kulavruttant|publisher=Gogte Committee|year=2006|location=[[Pune]]|pages=446|language=mr|trans-title=The [[Gogte (disambiguation)|Gogte]] Family Genealogy Almanac|chapter=Belgav Gharana, Dusra|trans-chapter=The 2nd [[Noble house (term)|House]] of [[Belgaum]] |ref={{sfnref|Gogte Committee|2006}} }}</ref> Their family was [[Chitpavan]] [[brahmin]],{{sfn|Kamath|1991|p=3}} and was established as the ''[[Nobility|gharana]]'' at [[Karad]] since Gogte's grandfather's time.{{sfn|Barve|1982|pp=7–8}}<ref>{{cite book|title=Gogte [[Kulavruttanta]]|publisher=Gogte Committee|year=2006|location=[[Pune]]|pages=445|language=mr|trans-title=The Gogte Family Genealogy Almanac|chapter=Belgav Gharana, Dusra|trans-chapter=The 2nd [[Noble house (term)|House]] of [[Belgaum]]}}</ref> Gogte's father was a practicing surgeon in Karad, with an [[Licentiate in Medicine and Surgery|L. M. & S.]] from the [[Calcutta National Medical College|National Medical College]] in [[Calcutta]],{{sfn|Kamath|1991|pp=9, 18}}{{sfn|Barve|1982|p=3}} while his mother hailed from the [[aristocratic]] [[Latey family|Latey (Bhagwat) family]] who had been hereditary [[castellan]]s of the [[:mr:सदाशिवगड (कराड)|Sadashivgad]] in Karad under the [[Maratha Peshwa and Generals from Bhat Family|Peshwas]] since the [[Battle of Kharda]] in 1795.<ref>{{cite book |title=Latey Family Tree and History |location=[[Pune]] |pages=2}}</ref>{{sfn|Barve|1982|pp=3, 4, 170}}

Gogte was born the eldest of five children, he had two younger brothers and two younger sisters.{{sfn|Barve|1982|p=8}} Through his brother Vaman, Gogte was a paternal uncle to Anjali Dandekar, the first wife of [[Kokuyo Camlin]] head [[Dilip Dandekar]], and to Jayant, husband of academician [[Jyoti Gogte]]. Through his brother Vasudev, Gogte was a paternal uncle to Rekha Agashe, the wife of [[Board of Control for Cricket in India|BCCI]] vice-president [[Dnyaneshwar Agashe]], and thus a great-uncle to [[Mandar Agashe|Mandar]], [[Ashutosh Agashe|Ashutosh]] and [[Sheetal Agashe]]. He was also a great-uncle of poet [[Rashmi Parekh]], the granddaughter of his brother Vasudev through his second daughter Madhuri.{{sfn|Kamath|1991|p=10}}{{sfn|Barve|1982|p=173}}<ref>{{cite book|last1=Agashe|first1=Trupti|last2=Agashe|first2=Gopal|editor1-last=Wad|editor1-first=Mugdha|title=Agashe [[Kulavruttanta]]|trans-title= The [[Agashe]] Family Genealogy|chapter=Mangdari Gharana|trans-chapter=The [[Noble house (term)|House]] of [[Mangdari]]|date=2006|publisher=Surbhi Graphics|location=[[Hyderabad]]|edition=2nd|language=mr|isbn=978-1-5323-4500-5|pages=53–62}}</ref>

Beginning in 1925, Gogte began his education at the [[Lokmanya Tilak|Tilak High School]] in Karad, before he was sent to [[Jalgaon]] in 1926, to be educated under his paternal uncle Narayanrao Gogte, who was headmaster at the New English School there.{{sfn|Kamath|1991|p=12}}{{sfn|Barve|1982|p=9}} In 1928, he accompanied his uncle to [[Chalisgaon]], where they would be members of the [[Mahatma Gandhi|Gandhi Ashram]] there, alongside [[Hari Vinayak Pataskar]].{{sfn|Barve|1982|p=111}} In 1929, he returned to Karad to continue his education at the Tilak High School,{{sfn|Kamath|1991|p=14}} and while there, was a classmate of [[Yashwantrao Chavan]] till 1930.{{sfn|Kamath|1991|pp=16–17}}

By the early 1930s, both his father and uncle had joined the [[Indian independence movement]] as [[Gandhian]]s.{{sfn|Barve|1982|pp=112–113}} By 1931, Gogte's father moved their family to [[Belgaum]],{{sfn|Kamath|1991|p=18}}{{sfn|Barve|1982|p=11}} where Gogte continued his education at the Chintamanrao High School at [[Shahapur, Ichalkaranji|Shahapur]], then in the [[Sangli State|Princely State of Sangli]].{{sfn|Kamath|1991|p=22}}{{sfn|Barve|1982|p=20}} While at school at Shahapur, Gogte was distinguished at elocution,{{sfn|Kamath|1991|p=24}}{{sfn|Barve|1982|p=21}} was elected as general secretary of the student body,{{sfn|Kamath|1991|p=27}} and took part in several [[civil unrest]]s as part of the [[Indian freedom movement]] and was once [[citizen's arrest|arrested]] for reading out an [[Indian National Congress]] bulletin in public.{{sfn|Kamath|1991|p=26}} In early 1932, at sixteen, he survived an assassination attempt from two students at his school, who bombed the venue of the event where Gogte and a few other students were staging [[Govind Ballal Deval]]'s 1916 play ''Samshay Kallol''.{{sfn|Kamath|1991|pp=28–29}}{{sfn|Barve|1982|pp=22–23}}

Though of [[nobility|noble]] origin as descendants of [[chieftain]]s from the [[Maratha Confederacy|Peshwai]], the family was relatively impoverished,{{sfn|Kamath|1991|p=19}} and in 1933, Gogte's father abandoned his medical practice to establish a [[flour mill]].{{sfn|Kamath|1991|p=21}} That same year, aged seventeen, he matriculated from school by passing his [[University of Bombay]] examinations,{{sfn|Kamath|1991|p=32}}{{sfn|Barve|1982|p=35}} and went on to study [[law]], graduating his [[diploma|high court pleader's examination]] in 1935, aged nineteen.{{sfn|Kamath|1991|pp=35–36}}{{sfn|Barve|1982|p=38}} He then moved to [[Mumbai]] to work at the [[Bombay High Court]] for a year.{{sfn|Kamath|1991|p=36}}{{sfn|Barve|1982|p=39}}

While a guest at his maternal first cousin Laxman "Rajabhau" Bhave's residence in Mumbai in 1936, Gogte became acquainted with Ushatai Chiplunkar. She was the younger sister of his cousin's wife, and they were engaged shortly after their acquaintance.{{sfn|Kamath|1991|p=37}} The couple married on 7 June 1943,{{sfn|Kamath|1991|p=39}}{{sfn|Barve|1982|p=68}} and would go on to have three sons, Arvind (b. 1944), Anand (b. 1946) and Shirish (b. 1950).<ref>{{cite book|title=Gogte Kulavruttant|publisher=Gogte Committee|year=2006|location=[[Pune]]|pages=446|language=mr|trans-title=The Gogte Family Genealogy Almanac|chapter=Belgav Gharana, Dusra|trans-chapter=The 2nd [[Noble house (term)|House]] of [[Belgaum]]}}</ref>{{sfn|Barve|1982|pp=76–77}}

=== Career as a lawyer: 1936–1943 ===
In 1936, at the age of twenty one, Gogte began his practice as an advocate in Belgaum.{{sfn|Kamath|1991|p=47}}{{sfn|Barve|1982|p=44}} One of his first notable cases was that of two [[Cutlery|cutler]] women from [[Baluchistan]] who had been charged with [[cheating]], [[criminal intimidation]] and [[affray]]. His defense got them [[acquitted]], but Gogte's failure to secure the fees for his service led the women to offer him two [[Rampuri]] knives they had made as payment.{{sfn|Kamath|1991|p=48}}{{sfn|Barve|1982|pp=45–46}} This incident, alongside the moniker the two women addressed him with (''Raosaheb'') was widely circulated in legal circles and press, resulting in the colloquial name by which he would be known the rest of his professional and personal life.{{sfn|Kamath|1991|pp=50–51}}{{sfn|Barve|1982|p=46}}<ref>{{cite book |title=Lokamānasātīla Yaśavantarāva |date=1985 |publisher=Indrāyaṇī Sāhitya |location=[[University of Michigan]] |page=147 |language=mr |quote=श्री . बा . म . तथा रावसाहेब गोगटे उद्योगपती गोगटे म्हणून प्रसिद्ध आहेत.}}</ref>

Beginning in 1936, Gogte taught law at the Karnatak Law Society,{{sfn|Barve|1982|p=46}} alongside his advocacy work, and would go on to form the [[Belgaum District|Belgaum District Students Conference]].{{sfn|Kamath|1991|p=52}}{{sfn|Barve|1982|p=47}} Around this time, Gogte was acquitted on a false charge of misappropriating sheets of irons given to him by the Iron and Steel Controller of Belgaum.{{sfn|Kamath|1991|pp=53–54}} When the [[Motor Vehicles Act]] was amended in 1939, he was appointed to be the Honorary Secretary of the Bus Operators' Union of Belgaum by Keshavrao Gokhale of the [[Bombay Legislative Assembly]],{{sfn|Kamath|1991|p=56}} where he was involved in several cases of [[accident insurance]], route allocation, and interstate [[road tax]] negotiations with the Princely States of Sangli and [[Kolhapur State|Kolhapur]].{{sfn|Kamath|1991|pp=57–58}}{{sfn|Barve|1982|pp=48-50}}

During such a time, when negotiations for route allocations crossing interstate lines, between the [[Dominion of India|union]] and the [[Princely State]]s came to an impasse, Gogte was warranted for arrest by the [[Chief Minister]] of the Kolhapur State, but evaded arrest by boarding a train bound for [[Miraj]] dressed as a woman, after being informed by the [[private secretary]] of [[Shivaji VII]], the [[Maharaja]] of Kolhapur at the time. After this incidence, the negotiations between the union and the States were formally taken up and resolved by the [[Deccan States Agency]] and the [[Government of Bombay]].{{sfn|Kamath|1991|pp=59-61}}{{sfn|Barve|1982|pp=57-62}}

By the end of 1942, Gogte had organised the All India Motor Union Congress and was engaged as the [[General counsel|chief counsel]] for all cases between the union and the Bombay Government.{{sfn|Kamath|1991|p=62}}{{sfn|Barve|1982|pp=51–52}} By 1943, Gogte was engaged as chief counsel for cases between bus operators' unions in Belgaum, [[Pune]], [[Nashik]] and [[Ahmedabad]] and their respective [[List of Regional Transport Office districts in India|Regional Transport Authorities]].{{sfn|Kamath|1991|p=63}} He would continue to legally represent various sectors of the [[transport industry]] into the 1950s.{{sfn|Kamath|1991|pp=75–76}}{{sfn|Barve|1982|p=53}}

=== Venture into business and philanthropy: 1944–1970 ===
By 1944, Gogte had secured loans for his own [[trucking]] business.{{sfn|Kamath|1991|p=63}}{{sfn|Barve|1982|p=54}} When [[India in World War II|India's involvement]] in the [[Second World War]] led to petrol rationing, he decided to emulate a [[United Kingdom|British]] company in [[Madras]], and establish a [[Gas-fired power plant]] that used [[charcoal]] to generate fuel for his trucking vehicles. This venture proved unsuccessful.{{sfn|Kamath|1991|pp=70-73}}{{sfn|Barve|1982|pp=54–55}} In between 1945 and 1948, Gogte next ventured, yet again unsuccessfully, into setting up a [[Steel mill|Steel rolling mill]] in Karad.{{sfn|Kamath|1991|pp=74–75}}{{sfn|Barve|1982|pp=55–56}}

In 1952, Gogte got involved in the business of transporting [[mackerel]] from the coasts of [[Karwar]] to inner [[Maharashtra]] and Karnataka.{{sfn|Barve|1982|p=63}} The need to preserve the catch, led him to seek investment from the [[Raja]] of the [[Kurundvad Junior|Princely State of Kurundwad (Junior)]] for the installment of an ice factory in Belgaum, which was inaugurated by [[Morarji Desai]], then [[Chief Minister of Maharashtra|Chief Minister of Unified Bombay]].{{sfn|Kamath|1991|pp=64–65}} On the suggestion of Bombay's [[Government of Maharashtra|Superintendent of Fisheries]], Gogte travelled to [[Aberdeen]] to study [[Cryopreservation|flash freezing]] in order to set his own plant up for the venture, but was ultimately unsuccessful.{{sfn|Kamath|1991|p=66}}{{sfn|Barve|1982|pp=64-66}}

In the early 1950s, [[Japan|Japanese]] interest in the [[iron ore|iron]] and [[manganese ore]]s of [[Portuguese India|Portuguese Goa]] led Gogte to explore the possibility of mining for the ores in the districts of [[Ratnagiri district|Ratnagiri]] and [[North Kanara]].{{sfn|Kamath|1991|p=78}} In 1954, he began mining for manganese near Kuveshi,{{sfn|Kamath|1991|p=79}}{{sfn|Barve|1982|p=89}} soon banding with other mine owners to form the Association of Manganese Ore Producers, of which he would serve as the inaugural president.{{sfn|Kamath|1991|p=80}} With financial encouragement from local lenders, Gogte established the [[Gogte_Group#Gogte_Mines|Gogte Mines]] company and began mining for iron ore at [[Redi, Maharashtra|Redi]] in 1957,{{sfn|Kamath|1991|p=81}} having leased 187 acres and 16 [[guntha]]s for the project, and producing 15,000 tonnes of iron ore within the first four months.{{sfn|Kamath|1991|p=82}}{{sfn|Barve|1982|pp=90–91}}

When contractors began demanding higher rates, he commissioned two self-propelled [[barge]]s for the transport of the ore, which were inaugurated by Yashwantrao Chavan and his wife Venutai.{{sfn|Kamath|1991|pp=89–90}}<ref>{{cite book |last1=Karkaria |first1=Bachi J. |title=Dare to Dream: A Life of Rai Bahadur Mohan Singh Oberoi |date=1992 |publisher=Penguin |isbn=978-0-670-84723-5 |page=129 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3_DgAAAAMAAJ&q=raosaheb%20gogte |language=en}}</ref>{{sfn|Barve|1982|p=184}} When a flaw in their design was discovered, Gogte won the [[arbitration]] case, counselled by [[H. R. Gokhale]], against the manufacturers of the barges.{{sfn|Kamath|1991|pp=91–92}} Around the same time, Gogte would also go on to assist [[Mohan Singh Oberoi]] with the foundation of his signature [[Oberoi hotel]] in [[Mumbai]]; which Gogte performed the [[Satyanarayan Puja]] for at its inauguration, and subsequently Oberoi had one of the hotel's suites named after Gogte.{{sfn|Kamath|1991|p=91}}<ref>{{cite book |last1=Karkaria |first1=Bachi J. |title=Dare to Dream: A Life of Rai Bahadur Mohan Singh Oberoi |date=1992 |publisher=Penguin |isbn=978-0-670-84723-5 |page=130 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3_DgAAAAMAAJ&q=raosaheb%20gogte |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last1=Desāī |first1=Mādhavī |title=Nāca ga Ghumā |date=1991 |publisher=Indrāyaṇī Sāhitya |location=[[University of Michigan]] |pages=273, 282, 284 |language=mr}}</ref>

Between 1959 and 1960, he further secured funding from the [[Bank of Baroda]] to import sophisticated mining equipment from the [[United States]],{{sfn|Kamath|1991|p=83}} having exported 92,798 tonnes of crude iron ore within that financial year.{{sfn|Kamath|1991|p=92}} Between 1961 and 1964, the mining company continued to function at a loss, and so Gogte ventured to secure orders from Japan.{{sfn|Kamath|1991|p=93}}{{sfn|Barve|1982|pp=92–93}} In 1963, he scouted 1500 acres of land near [[Nala Sopara]] for developing a [[salt farm|salt works]].{{sfn|Barve|1982|pp=144, 146}} He tasked his brother Vasudev with its management, who would apply [[France|French]] and [[Tunisia|Tunisian]] techniques of salt production at the works.{{sfn|Barve|1982|p=145}} The [[Gogte_Group#Gogte_Salts|Gogte Salts]] company was inaugurated in 1964 at the hands of [[Sadashiv Govind Barve]].{{sfn|Kamath|1991|pp=95-97}} In 1966, Gogte was made a patron of the Karnatak Law Society, and the [[Gogte College of Commerce]] was named in his honour.<ref>{{cite web |title=History – Karnatak Law Society |url=https://klsbelagavi.org/our-university/ |access-date=31 July 2021}}</ref> Turning a profit after a decade of functioning,{{sfn|Kamath|1991|p=93}} Gogte formally incorporated his mining company on 20 July 1967.<ref>{{cite web |title=Gogte Mines Private Limited |url=https://www.zaubacorp.com/company/GOGTE-MINES-PRIVATE-LIMITED/U99999MH1967PTC013783 |website=Zauba Corp |access-date=31 July 2021}}</ref>{{sfn|Barve|1982|pp=93–94}}

=== Veteran industrialist: 1970–1991 ===

In 1972, Gogte was elected president of the Belgaum Chamber of Commerce, and would run campaigns across rural and urban Belgaum with the chamber to attract [[entrepreneur]]s to set up [[Small and medium-sized enterprises|small-scale industries]] in their localities.{{sfn|Kamath|1991|pp=127-129}} By 1974, Gogte had secured buyers for his iron ore in [[Romania]],{{sfn|Kamath|1991|p=93}} formally incorporating the [[Gogte_Group#Gogte_Minerals|Gogte Minerals]] company on 23 February 1977,<ref>{{cite web |title=Gogte Minerals Private Limited |url=https://www.zaubacorp.com/company/GOGTE-MINERALS-PRIVATE-LIMITED/U14100MH1977PTC019505 |website=Zauba Corp |access-date=31 July 2021}}</ref> for promotion of [[ammonium chloride]] [[fertilizer]]s.{{sfn|Kamath|1991|pp=99–100}}

In 1977, Gogte was the subject of a [[festschrift]],<ref>{{cite book |title=Yaśavantarāva Cavhāṇa: samagra sāhitya sūcī |date=2003 |publisher=Snehavardhana Prakāśana |location=[[University of Michigan]] |isbn=978-81-85601-79-3 |page=47, 67 |language=mr}}</ref>{{sfn|Barve|1982|p=xxi}} and in 1978, tried to establish a [[paper mill]] in the [[Chandrapur district]] with the help of [[Vasantdada Patil]], but the venture was unsuccessful.{{sfn|Kamath|1991|pp=94–95}} Around the same time, Gogte ventured into establishing an [[inner-city]] bus service for Belgaum.{{sfn|Kamath|1991|p=67}} The controversial scheme conflicted with the [[Belgaum City Corporation]]'s plans to do the same. Gogte controversially won the license from the Regional Transport Authority for the scheme after producing a letter from then [[Ministry of Home Affairs (India)|Minister of Home Affairs]], Morarji Desai, disapproving of small municipalities having jurisdiction over transport services in cities.{{sfn|Kamath|1991|p=68}} The city bus service was met with civilian acclaim, but was soon nationalised.{{sfn|Kamath|1991|p=69}} Around the same time, he was also elected president of the [[Mahratta Chamber of Commerce, Industries and Agriculture|Maharashtra Chamber of Commerce]].{{sfn|Kamath|1991|p=122}} In 1979, Gogte further made financial contributions to the Karnatak Law Society, who in-turn honoured him by naming the [[Gogte Institute of Technology]] after him.<ref>{{cite web |title=About – KLS Gogte Institute of Technology, Belgavi |website=[[Gogte Institute of Technology|KLS GIT]] |url=http://www.git.edu/4415/ |access-date=31 July 2021}}</ref>{{sfn|Barve|1982|pp=187–188}}

On 17 May 1980, Gogte established [[Gogte_Group#Gogte_Textiles|Gogte Textiles]], venturing into [[textiles]].{{sfn|Barve|1982|p=227}}<ref>{{cite web |title=Gogte Infrastructure Development Private Limited |url=https://www.zaubacorp.com/company/GOGTE-INFRASTRUCTURE-DEVELOPMENTCORPORATION-LIMITED/U17115KA1980PLC003828 |website=Zauba Corp |access-date=31 July 2021}}</ref> Under the advisement of [[S. M. Krishna]], he pursued to obtain a license from the [[Government of Karnataka]] under [[Gundu Rao]],{{sfn|Kamath|1991|p=102}} to set up a [[textile mill]] in Kakti, acquiring 100 acres for the venture and ordering weaving machinery from [[Switzerland]].{{sfn|Kamath|1991|p=104}}{{sfn|Barve|1982|pp=100–101}} After promises of financial encouragement from the [[Ministry of Commerce and Industry (India)|Ministry of Industry]] fell through, Gogte appealed to [[R. N. Malhotra]] at the [[Reserve Bank of India]] for provision of [[working capital]]. Financial encouragement came from the [[State Bank of Mysore]] and [[IDBI]], under the advisement of [[Shankarrao Chavan]].{{sfn|Kamath|1991|p=105}}{{sfn|Barve|1982|p=102–106}} In 1981, Gogte was elected to the first of three terms as [[chairman]] of the [[National Institute of Industrial Engineering|National Institute for Training in Industrial Engineering]] (NITIE),{{sfn|Kamath|1991|p=130}}{{sfn|Barve|1982|p=189}} and in 1982, he became the subject of a biography in [[Marathi language|Marathi]] by D. K. Barve.<ref>{{cite book |title=Yaśavantarāva Cavhāṇa: samagra sāhitya sūcī |date=2003 |publisher=Snehavardhana Prakāśana |location=[[University of Michigan]] |isbn=978-81-85601-79-3 |page=49 |language=mr}}</ref>{{sfn|Barve|1982|p=xxi-xxiii}} In 1986, he was further appointed chairman of the State Industrial and Investment Corporation of Maharashtra (SICOM).{{sfn|Kamath|1991|p=133}}<ref>{{cite news |last1=Kulkarni |first1=Arvind |title=B. M. Gogte appointed Chairman of SICOM |work=[[The Afternoon Despatch & Courier]] |date=September 1986}}</ref>

In 1980, Gogte went on to become president of the Indo-Arab Chamber of Commerce and Industry, and worked on developing the [[Konkan]] region with [[Saudi Arabia|Saudi Arabian]] investment.{{sfn|Kamath|1991|p=124}}{{sfn|Barve|1982|pp=149–150}}<ref>{{cite book |last1=Maṭhakara |first1=Jayānanda |title=Kokaṇa, svapna āṇi vāstava |date=1990 |publisher=Vainateya Prakāśana |location=[[University of California]] |page=41 |language=mr}}</ref> In the late 1980s, Gogte's son Arvind, and his wife Mangal (née [[Patwardhan dynasty|Patwardhan]], a [[Princess]] of the Princely State of Kurundwad (Junior)),{{sfn|Kamath|1991|p=159}} presented samples of their Textile Mills' [[terrycloth]] towels to then [[Prime Minister of India|Prime Minister]] [[Rajiv Gandhi]], whose wife [[Sonia Gandhi]] was said to have enquired after them. When Gandhi requested Gogte to arrange a visit to the mills, the mill workers went on strike.{{sfn|Kamath|1991|pp=107–108}} By 1990, the Gogte Textile Mills was one of the largest exporters of textile goods in Karnataka,{{sfn|Kamath|1991|p=106}} and in 1991, Gogte became the subject of another biography by M. V. Kamath.{{sfn|Kamath|1991|loc=Front sleeve}}

=== Later years, death, and legacy: 1991–2000 ===
In the early 1990s, Gogte made donations to the Belgaum Chamber of Commerce, and the chamber responded by naming the conference room at their headquarters in Belgaum the Gogte Hall, after him.{{sfn|Kamath|1991|p=120}} Gogte served his third consecutive term as chairman of NITIE till 1994. A friend of [[Naval Tata]], he was on the board of directors for three companies of the [[Tata Group]], as well as a director for [[Oberoi hotels]].{{sfn|Kamath|1991|p=159}} He had suffered from [[spondylitis]] since 1976,{{sfn|Barve|1982|p=139}} having undergone successful operation for it.{{sfn|Kamath|1991|pp=143-146}}<ref>{{cite book |last1=Kamath |first1=M. V. |last2=Karmarkar |first2=Rekha |author1-link=M. V. Kamath |title=Untold Stories of Doctors & Patients |date=1993 |publisher=UBS Publishers' Distributors |location=[[University of Michigan]] |isbn=978-81-85674-18-6 |page=31 |language=en}}</ref>

A patron of the arts and sciences,<ref>{{cite book |title=Marāṭhī nāṭyakośa: nāṭaka-raṅgabhūmīvishayaka nivaḍaka māhitī deṇārā grantha |date=2000 |publisher=Niśānta Prakāśana āṇi Abhaya Chājeḍa |location=[[University of Michigan]] |language=mr}}</ref> he organised several concerts in Belgaum for [[Bal Gandharva]] and [[Lata Mangeshkar]], alongside scientific patronages to the research of [[Bhalchandra Nilkanth Purandare]].{{sfn|Kamath|1991|p=147}} He also gave financial support to the [[Marathi cinema|Marathi]] and [[Kannada cinema|Kannada]] film industries.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Dubhashi |first1=P. R. |title=Pursuing Idealism Through Civil Service: Memories of an Administrator and a Trainer |date=2007 |publisher=Shipra Publications |isbn=978-81-7541-291-0 |page=187 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=KsBPAQAAIAAJ |language=en}}</ref> The Karnatak Drama Conference also honoured his patronage to drama by announcing an annual Gogte Dramatic Award awarded to [[dramatist]]s.{{sfn|Kamath|1991|p=148}}

Gogte died in Belgaum, Karnataka, on 26 February 2000, aged 83.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Kamath |first1=M. V. |author1-link=M. V. Kamath |title=A Reporter at Large |date=2002 |publisher=Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan |location=[[University of Michigan]] |isbn=978-81-7276-270-4 |page=732 |language=en}}</ref> He was survived by his wife until her own death in 2007, his three sons and their families: seven grandchildren, and two great-grandchildren at the time; his younger brother Vaman and sister Leela also survived him, as well as the descendants of all his siblings.{{sfn|Gogte Committee|2006|pp=446–447}} He was survived in business by his three sons and three grandsons.{{sfn|Kamath|1991|pp=159–160}}

Besides the naming of the colleges founded in his honour by the Karnatak Law Society in 1966 and 1979 respectively, a bust of his likeness was installed at the headquarters of the Karnataka Education Society in 1986.{{sfn|Kamath|1991|p=148}}{{sfn|Barve|1982|p=195}} Today, he is the namesake of the Gogte Hall at the [[Shivaji Park|Shivaji Park Gymkhana]] in [[Dadar]], [[Mumbai]], the Gogte Suite at the Oberoi Hotel in Mumbai, and the Gogte Hall at the Belgaum Chamber of Commerce.{{sfn|Kamath|1991|pp=64, 65, 91, 120}} He is also the namesake of the Raosaheb Gogte College of Commerce,<ref>{{cite web |title=Our Inspiration |url=http://www.gogatewalkecollege.com/our_inspiration.php |website=gogatewalkecollege.com |publisher=Gogte Walke College |access-date=11 August 2021}}</ref> and the Gogte Circle in Belgaum.<ref>{{cite web |title=Gogte Circle |url=https://www.google.com/maps/place/Gogte+Circle/@15.8481606,74.5048859,17z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m5!3m4!1s0x3bbf6698e1e78621:0x2a2eeaeb3ecf32f0!8m2!3d15.8481555!4d74.5070746 |website=[[Google Maps]] |language=en |access-date=31 July 2021}}</ref>

== References ==
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== Bibliography ==
*{{cite book|last=Kamath|first=M. V.|author-link=M. V. Kamath|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=L7QgAAAAIAAJ&q=sheetal+agashe|title=The Makings of a Millionaire: A Tribute to a Living Legend, Raosaheb B.M. Gogte, Industrialist, Philanthropist & Educationist|date=1991|location=[[Mumbai]]|publisher=Jaico Publishing House|language=en|oclc=25633742}}
*{{cite book |last1=Barve |first1=D. K. |title=सागरमेघ: बा. म. ऊर्फ रावसाहेब गोगटे यांचा भैतिक व आत्मिक आविष्कार|trans-title= Sagarmegh: The Physical and Spiritual Invention of B. M. "Raosaheb" Gogte |date=1982 |publisher=Bombay Book Ḍepot |location=[[Mumbai]] |language=Marathi|oclc=12024875}}

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