Ranade, Gokhale, Tilak, Savarkar, and Godse were all Chitpavan Brahmins.

Evidence

M.G. Ranade, founder-member of the Indian National Congress; G.K. Gokhale, ‘moderate’ Congress leader and mentor to M.K. Gandhi; Pandita Ramabai, a pioneer of education and women’s rights; B.G. Tilak, Hindu nationalist leader; Vinoba Bhave, ‘spiritual successor’ to Gandhi; V.D. Savarkar, who coined the term Hindutva, and who was one of the co-accused in Gandhi’s assassination; and Nathuram Godse, who assassinated Gandhi, were all Chitpavan Brahmins. — Ambedkar, B R, Annihilation of Caste_ The Annotated…, 1081

Categorization

Category: Factual Claims

• XREF: Striking that a tiny sub-caste produced both the architects of Indian nationalism and Gandhi’s assassin — relevant to caste-based power concentration.
• SEED: An essay angle: how one Brahmin sub-caste monopolized elite public life across a whole era of Indian history.

Related

• Chitpavan Brahmins supplied most of modern India’s major political and intellectual figures. (similarity 0.90)
• Gandhi’s Brahmin assassin was a former RSS activist. (similarity 0.81)
• Gandhi’s caste views aligned closely with Hindu nationalist views (similarity 0.79)
• Gandhi belonged to a long line of privileged-caste reformers (similarity 0.78)