Pandurang Purushottam Shirodkar Explained

Pandurang Purushottam Shirodkar
Birth Date:12 December 1916
Birth Place:Goa, Portuguese India
Office:Speaker of the Goa Legislative Assembly
Termstart:1964
Term End:1967
Predecessor:position established
Successor:Gopal Appa Kamat
Office1:Member of the Goa Legislative Assembly
Termstart1:1964
Termend1:1967
Predecessor1:constituency established
Successor1:Punaji Achrekar
Constituency1:Siolim
Party:Maharashtrawadi Gomantak Party
Children:Prakashchandra Shirodkar (son)
Nationality:Indian

Pandurang Purushottam Shirodkar (12 December 1916 – 5 September 2000) was a campaigner, author and the first speaker of the Goa Legislative Assembly.[1] He was born in Goa in Portuguese India. He studied law and worked as an editor of the Navshakti daily newspaper in Mumbai.

Later he participated actively in Goa's struggle for freedom from Portuguese colonial rule and was in exile in Africa and Portugal for many years. He was a member of the Indian National Congress and a prominent figure in the Maharashtrawadi Gomantak Party.[2]

Shirodkar authored many books in Marathi, Konkani, English and Portuguese, and translated Bal Gangadhar Tilak's Shrimadbhagwadgeetarahasya into Portuguese.

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: Past speakers of Goa . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20090924020431/http://www.goavidhansabha.gov.in/pastspk.php . 24 September 2009 .
  2. cabinet government in Goa, 1961–1993, Pages:4–5 By Aureliano Fernandes