# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/vishwanath-kashinath-rajwade
# Generated: 2026-08-15T17:01:31.896Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/vishwanath-kashinath-rajwade"
name: "Vishwanath Kashinath Rajwade"
slug: "vishwanath-kashinath-rajwade"
description: "Vishwanath Kashinath Rajwade was an Indian historian, known for his work on the history of the Maratha Empire. He pioneered research into the Empire by visiting hundreds of villages across India and gathering thousands of historical documents, especially family records. He also founded the Bharat Itihas Sanshodhak Mandal, a research institute, at Pune in 1910."
tagline: "Eminent historian, linguist, scholar, writer, commentator and orator from Maharashtra (1863-1926)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Vishwanath_Kashinath_Rajwade_2003_stamp_of_India.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
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profileType:
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  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1863-06-24"
deathDate: "1926-12-31"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             3.329197684036393
  historical:           4.21692
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     30
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump