Raosaheb Gogte
Raosaheb Gogte | |
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Founder and Managing Director of the Gogte Group | |
In office 20 July 1967 – 26 February 2000 | |
Personal details | |
Born | Tembhu, Bombay Presidency, British India | 16 September 1916
Died | 26 February 2000 Belgaum, Karnataka, India | (aged 83)
Spouse |
Ushatai Chiplunkar (m. 1943) |
Children | 3 |
Occupation | Industrialist, philanthropist, educationist , lawyer |
Balkrishna Mahadev Gogte (
Gogte was the founder of the
Biography
Early life, family and education: 1916–1936
Gogte was born on 16 September 1916 at
Gogte was born the eldest of five children, he had two younger brothers and two younger sisters.[12] 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 BCCI vice-president Dnyaneshwar Agashe, and thus a great-uncle to Mandar, 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.[13][14][15]
Beginning in 1925, Gogte began his education at the
By the early 1930s, both his father and uncle had joined the
Though of
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.[40] The couple married on 7 June 1943,[41][42] and would go on to have three sons, Arvind (b. 1944), Anand (b. 1946) and Shirish (b. 1950).[43][44]
Career as a lawyer: 1936–1943
In 1936, at the age of twenty one, Gogte began his practice as an advocate in Belgaum.
Beginning in 1936, Gogte taught law at the Karnatak Law Society,
During such a time, when negotiations for route allocations crossing interstate lines, between the
By the end of 1942, Gogte had organised the All India Motor Union Congress and was engaged as the chief counsel for all cases between the union and the Bombay Government.[60][61] By 1943, Gogte was engaged as chief counsel for cases between bus operators' unions in Belgaum, Pune, Nashik and Ahmedabad and their respective Regional Transport Authorities.[62] He would continue to legally represent various sectors of the transport industry into the 1950s.[63][64]
Venture into business and philanthropy: 1944–1970
By 1944, Gogte had secured loans for his own
In 1952, Gogte got involved in the business of transporting
In the early 1950s,
When contractors began demanding higher rates, he commissioned two self-propelled
Between 1959 and 1960, he further secured funding from the
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
In 1977, Gogte was the subject of a
On 17 May 1980, Gogte established
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 Arabian investment.[123][124][125] In the late 1980s, Gogte's son Arvind, and his wife Mangal (née Patwardhan, a Princess of the Princely State of Kurundwad (Junior)),[126] presented samples of their Textile Mills' terrycloth towels to then 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.[127] By 1990, the Gogte Textile Mills was one of the largest exporters of textile goods in Karnataka,[128] and in 1991, Gogte became the subject of another biography by M. V. Kamath.[129]
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.
A patron of the arts and sciences,
Gogte died in Belgaum, Karnataka, on 26 February 2000, aged 83.[138] 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.[139] He was survived in business by his three sons and three grandsons.[140]
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.[137][141] Today, he is the namesake of the Gogte Hall at the 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.[142] He is also the namesake of the Raosaheb Gogte College of Commerce,[143] and the Gogte Circle in Belgaum.[144]
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Bibliography
- OCLC 25633742.
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