Shivaji Maharaj recaptured it back in 1656 again with the help of Bapuji Mudgal Deshpande, who convinced Fort commander by giving land in newly created Shivapur village and peacefully gained control of fort. This Fort saw attacks of Mughals on 1662, 1663 and 1665.

The district stadium near Bapuji Hospital is a key place for cricket-coaching camps.

Bapuji Educational Association in Davangere is a conglomerate of over 50 educational institutions across the city of Davangere.

Two medical colleges, 2 dental colleges, an engineering college Bapuji Institute of Engineering & Technology, Bapuji B-Schools and numerous other colleges are associated with the association.

Head office of the Bapuji Educational Association.

: The Sanskrit scholar Shivkar Bapuji Talpade designed an unmanned aircraft called Marutsakthi ( meaning Power of Air ), supposedly based on Vedic technology.

AWHO colony area and Bapuji nagar area stand out in having various shops and ATM's.

Tarabai, widow of Rajaram however not desiring to acclaim Shahu, had won over Parashuram Pratinidhi and Bapuji, elder brother of Parasoji, to her side.

under the pretence of ascertaining whether Shahu was real, sent Bapuji who was the eldest person known in the Bhosle House, to Shahu's camp.

But Bapuji not only joined Shahu's forces but partook food in the same dish with Shahu and convinced all other Maratha chiefs of his blood royal, who now readily joined his standard.

Some of Kumar Gandharva's ideology is carried forward by his son and daughter, as well as students such as Madhup Mudgal, Shubha Mudgal, Vijay Sardeshmukh and Satyasheel Deshpande.

Since then, pop singers in the latter group have included KK, Baba Sehgal, Alisha Chinai, Shantanu Mukherjee aka Shaan, Sagarika, Colonial Cousins ( Hariharan, Leslie Lewis ), Lucky Ali, and Sonu Nigam, and music composers like Jawahar Wattal, who made top selling albums with, Daler Mehndi, Shubha Mudgal, Baba Sehgal, Swetha Shetty and Hans Raj Hans.

The Dave Brahmins of Mudgal Gotra, Jodhpur / Mandor who were originally from Gujarat, claim to be the descendants of Ravana.

Vinaya Chandra Maudgalya ( GM's then principal ), Shri Vinod Kumar and Shri Madhup Mudgal ( present principal of GM ) and Mr Prashant Patasar is the son of well known Trinidadian sitar artiste, Pandit Mangal Patasar.

* Hucheshwar G. Mudgal

Eminent contemporary gurus and performers in alphabetic order include Aloka Kanungo, Alpana Nayak, Anandi Ramachandran, Aruna Mohanty, Bichitrananda Swain, Bijayini Satpathy, Chitralekha Patnaik, Daksha Mashruwala, Dibakar Khuntia, Dipanwita Roy, Dr. Bidisha Mohanty, Durga Charan Ranbir, Gangadhar Pradhan, Gita Mahalik, Harekrishna Behra, Ileana Citaristi, Jhelum Paranjape, Jyoti Rout, Kasturi Pattanaik, Kiran Segal, Kumkum Lal, Madhavi Mudgal, Madhumita Raut, Manoranjan Pradhan, Meera Das, Muralidhar Majhi, Nandita Behera, Natabar Maharana, Oopali Operajita, Poushali Mukherjee, Ramani Ranjan Jena, Ramli Ibrahim, Ranjana Gauhar, Ratikant Mohapatra, Ratna Roy, Sharmila Biswas, Sharmila Mukherjee, Sharon Lowen, Snehaprava Samantaray, Sonal Mansingh, Sri Mahdeva Raut, Srinath Raut, Sujata Mohapatra, Surupa Sen, Sutapa Talukdar, Trinath Maharana and several others around the world.

Some of the upcoming Odissi performers in alphabetic order are Aadya Kaktikar, Anindita Nanda, Arushi Mudgal, Ayona Bhaduri, Bani Ray, Bijay Sahoo, Devraj Patnaik, Ellora Patnaik, Kaustavi Sarkar, Kavita Dwivedi, Lingaraj Pradhan, Madhusmita Mohanty, Masako Ono, Niharika Mohanty, Pabitra Kumar Pradhan, Priyadarshini Roy, Puspita Mishra, Rahul Acharya, Rajashree Chintak Behera, Rajashri Praharaj, Rajika Puri, Ramesh Chandra Jena, Rekha Tandon, Sandhyadipa Kar, Saswat Joshi, Saswati Garai-Ghosh, Shibani Patnaik, Shipra Avantica Mehrotra, Shreelina Ghosh, Sonali Mishra, Sreyashi Dey, Swapnokalpa Dasgupta, Vishnu Tattva Das, Yudhistir Nayak, and several others around the world.

Yavatmal town is the administrative headquarters of this district. The incumbent District Collector is Shri Ashwin Mudgal.

As a result, some of today ’ s best-known Indi-pop superstars like Baba Sehgal, Daler Mehndi, Shweta Shetty, Hans Raj Hans and Shubha Mudgal, to name a few, were launched.

A launch pad for Riya, cast in the female lead along with fellow-newcomers, Sharman Joshi, Sahil Khan and Shilpi Mudgal, the film pioneered a trend of commercial success for small budget films in India.

Since then, pop singers in the latter group have included Baba Sehgal, Alisha Chinai, Shantanu Mukherjee aka Shaan, Sunali Rathod, Palash Sen, KK, Sagarika, Colonial Cousins ( Hariharan, Leslie Lewis ), Lucky Ali, and Sonu Nigam, and music composers like Jawahar Wattal, who made top selling albums with, Daler Mehndi, Shubha Mudgal, Baba Sehgal, Shweta Shetty and Hans Raj Hans.

Then they invaded the doab north of Tungabhadra and recaptured the forts of Raichur and Mudgal.

After failing to start a film career, Balan appeared in around sixty television commercials and agreed to act in music videos for Euphoria and Shubha Mudgal, a majority of which were directed by Pradeep Sarkar.

All koirala share the same gotra, Moudgalya ( Mudgal ), which means all of them share the same forefather, so a koirala can't marry another koirala.

* 2000 – P. L. Deshpande, Marathi writer ( b. 1919 )

Through programs like the Deshpande Center, MIT faculty leverage their research and discoveries into multi-million-dollar commercial ventures.

* 1919 – P. L. Deshpande, Indian author ( d. 2000 )

* Deshpande, Madhav, Sanskrit & Prakrit, sociolinguistic issues.

Bronkhorst & Deshpande, Ann Arbor.

") or as P. L. Deshpande, was a Marathi writer from Maharashtra, India.

Deshpande was also an accomplished film and stage actor, music composer, harmonium player, singer, and orator.

Purushottam Laxman Deshpande was born on 8 November 1919 in Gaodevi area ( Krupal Hemraj Chawl ) in Mumbai to Laxman and Lakshmibai Deshpande.

His family then moved to Vile Parle before finally Pu La Deshpande settled in Pune for educational and work purposes.

As regards his stint as a college professor Deshpande was to write later that his job was to create hatred for Marathi language instead of love for it.

Deshpande was a prolific writer and produced numerous original works as well as adaptations of works from other languages into Marathi.

* P. L. Deshpande was the first interviewer to interview Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru, the first Prime Minister of India, for the then newly founded Doordarshan.

* A cultural center, P. L. Deshpande Kala Academy at the Ravindra Natya Mandir in Mumbai, has been named after him.

Deshpande Udyan, in Pune has been named after him.

His son Suresh Acharekar is also a tabla player, and has accompanied Kumar Gandharva and other artists. Kumarji had a long time friendly relations with noted Marathi literary couple Pu La Deshpande and Sunita Deshpande.

The paper, in its heyday, had among its contributors some of the most respected names of the day in Marathi literature such as Durga Bhagwat, Kusumagraj and P. L. Deshpande.

Noted Marathi thespian PuLa Deshpande has pointed out that performers from the Kirana gharana have had a " soft corner " for the Komal Rishabh note of the Indian Classical Music scale.