Noun
Chitpavan (plural Chitpavans or Chitpavan)
A member of a Brahmin community of Konkan in western India.
Early life Tilak was born in a Marathi Chitpavan Brahmin family in Ratnagiri as Keshav Gangadhar Tilak, as mentioned above. in headquarters of the eponymous district of present-day Maharashtra (then British India) on 23 July 1856. Source: Internet