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| {{Short description|Indian social reformer}}
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| '''Vithal Krishnaji Khedkar''' was an Indian social reformer, one of the founders of the [[Prarthana Samaj]] in [[Mumbai|Bombay]], and the author of a book later published as ''[[The Divine Heritage of the Yadavas]]'', which was one of the earliest attempts to create a historical narrative for the [[Yadav]] [[Caste system in India|caste]] of cowherds.<ref name="Rao1972">{{cite book|first=M. S. A. |last=Rao |authorlink=M. S. A. Rao|title=Tradition, rationality, and change: essays in sociology of economic development and social change|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Pcoorxw2rrYC|year=1972|publisher=Popular Prakashan|page=77}}</ref> His work made the case for a Yadav-[[Ahir]] narrative of descent from the god [[Krishna]] through royal dynasties.<ref>{{cite book|first=Robert Eric |last=Frykenberg|title=Land tenure and peasant in South Asia|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=gOLSAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA198|year=1984|publisher=Manohar|page=198}}</ref> Khedkar's book was revised in 1924 by his son, the surgeon [[Raghunath Vithal Khedkar]], and published in [[Allahabad]] in 1959.<ref>{{cite book|first=G. S. |last=Ghurye |authorlink=G. S. Ghurye|title=Caste and race in India|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=nWkjsvf6_vsC&pg=PA451|year=2008|publisher=Popular Prakashan|isbn=978-81-7154-205-5|page=451}}</ref>
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| Hailing from [[Ratnagiri District]], and a member of the [[Gavli]] Maharashtrian caste,<ref>{{cite book|first=G. S. |last=Ghurye |authorlink=G. S. Ghurye|title=Caste and race in India|url=https://archive.org/details/casteraceinindia0000ghur|url-access=registration |year=1969|publisher=Popular Prakashan|page=[https://archive.org/details/casteraceinindia0000ghur/page/450 450] |quote=The All-India Yadav Mahasabha owes its origin to the nineteenth century work of one VK Khedkar, a member of the Maharashtrian caste, known as Gowli, of Ratnagiri district}}</ref> Khedkar was born to a family of military tradition,<ref name="Rao1972"/> and became a schoolteacher, later becoming a private secretary to the Maharaja of [[Bhavnagar]].<ref>{{cite book|first=David Goodman |last=Mandlbaum |authorlink=David Goodman Mandelbaum|title=Society in India: Change and continuity|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=igfd9YYCqf8C&pg=PA442|year=1970|publisher=University of California Press|isbn=978-0-520-01623-1|page=442}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|first=Christophe |last=Jaffrelot |authorlink=Christophe Jaffrelot|title=India's silent revolution: the rise of the lower castes in North India|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=qJZp5tDuY-gC&pg=PA163|year=2003|publisher=Columbia University Press|isbn=978-0-231-12786-8|page=163}}</ref> He married the daughter of a ''[[sardar]]'', and she became the chief medical officer at Bhavnagar.<ref name="Rao1972"/>
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