Katgun is a village in the

Khatav Khatav is a town and tehsil, taluka (administrative division) located in the Man-Khatav subdivision of the Satara district, India. Geography Khatav is situated to the south of the Satara district. Vaduj is the headquarters of the taluka, which ...

taluka of Satara district in

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State,

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Notable personalities

* Mahatma Jyotiba Phule, the Indian activist, thinker, social reformer, writer and theologist was belongs to Katgun. Jyothirao Govindrao Phule was born in 1827 into a family that belonged to the agricultural (Mali) caste, traditionally occupied as gardeners and considered to be one of the Shudhra varna in the ritual ranking system of Hinduism. The original surname of the family had been Gorhe and had its origins in the village of Katgun, in present day Satara District, Maharashtra. File:Mahatma Jyotirao Phule Smarak Katgun.jpg, Mahatma Jyotirao Phule Smarak Katgun (Satara)

Connectivity

Katgun is close to many larger towns including

Vaduj Vaduj is a major town in Satara district of Maharashtra, India. It is the headquarters of Khatav Taluka. It is located on the banks of the Yerla River, Yerala River, and is around away from the district capital Satara (city), Satara, and away ...

, Satara.

References

Villages in Satara district {{Satara-geo-stub