# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/setu-madhavrao-pagdi
# Generated: 2026-08-15T09:43:50.341Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/setu-madhavrao-pagdi"
name: "Setu Madhavrao Pagdi"
slug: "setu-madhavrao-pagdi"
description: "Setumadhavarao Pagdi or Sethu Madhav Rao Pagdi was an Indian civil servant, a polyglot linguist, an accomplished historian and a distinguished man of letters specialised in modern Maratha history, especially the history of Shivaji. He also worked as the secretary of Government of Maharashtra. As a secretary he did his job fairly well. Setu Madhavrao was well versed in Marathi, English, Hindi, Sanskrit, Urdu and Persian, apart from Kannada, which was his mother tongue. As a linguist he discovered the sound system and Grammars of tribal languages like Kolami and Gondi. He was one who served the cause of Marathi against all odds in pre and post - Independent Hyderabad state. Following in the footsteps of the noted Bengali historian Jadunath Sarkar, Setu Madhavrao wrote Shivaji's biography in Marathi and English and the theory enkindled the spirit of nationalism in his readers."
tagline: "Indian historian"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
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  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1910-08-27"
deathDate: "1994-10-14"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
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  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  45
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "سیتو مادھو راؤ پگڈی"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "سيتو مادهافراو باجدى"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "सेतु माधव राव पगड़ी"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "सेतुमाधव पगडी"
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    title: "سیتو مادھو راؤ پگڈی"
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    title: "పగిడి సేత్ మాధవరావు"
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    title: "Wikidata"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump