{{Short description|Indian Maratha clan}} {{pp|small=yes}} {{Use dmy dates|date=June 2020}} '''Salunkhe''' (साळुंखे) is a prominent Maratha clan mostly from Maharashtra and neighbouring states. They have scattered through regions of Maratha dominance such as Beed, Akola, Buldana, Parbhani, Jalna, Aurangabad, Chalisgaon, Jalgaon, Solapur, Latur, Nagpur, Amravati, Baroda, Gwalior, Satara, and Kolhapur and some other parts of India.
== History == Salunkhe or Salunke is the vernacular form of the word Chaulukya.<ref>{{cite book|author= Vidyanand Swami Srivastavastavya|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=l7w9AAAAIAAJ|title= Are Rajput-Maratha Marriages Morganatic|year=1952 |language=en|page=169-170|accessdate=29 September 2024}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|author= Irawati Karve|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=w58iAQAAMAAJ|title=Kinship Organization In India |publisher=Munshiram Manoharlal Publishers Pvt. Ltd.|year=1990 |language=en|page=176| isbn=978-81-215-0504-8 |accessdate=29 September 2024}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|author= Vidyanand Swami Srivastavastavya|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1Vg9AAAAMAAJ |title= Elements Amongst the Marathas, Volume 1|publisher=Aitihasik Gaurava Grantha Mala|year=1952|language=en|page=46|accessdate=29 September 2024}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|author=Syed Siraj ul Hassan|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=lYSd-3yL9h0C&pg=PA475|title=The castes and tribes of H.E.H. the Nizam's dominions|publisher=Asian Educational Services|isbn=9788120604889|year=1989|language=en|page=475|accessdate=29 September 2024}}</ref>
In the inscription, which were written in Sanskrit, it was spelled ''Saluki'', ''Saluke'', ''Salukki'' in inscriptions, but in local language it got variations.<ref>Maratha Kshatriyancha Ithihas by Mr.K.B.Deshmukh.{{in lang|mr}}</ref> The Salunkhe Maratha clan belongs to the Kshatriya ''varna''. The descendants of the Chaulukya dynasty came to be known by the Salunkhe surname in Maharashtra and Karnataka. Salukya/Salunkhe are the corrupt forms of Chaulukya surname.<ref>[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.16652/page/n297/mode/2up Vaidya C.V., History of Medieval Hindu India, pg.1]</ref><ref>Maratha Kshatriyancha Ithihas by Mr.K.B.Deshmukh.{{in lang|mr}}</ref>
== Notables == * Shrimant Sundarrao Salunkhe, Maratha leader and former Deputy Chief Minister of Maharashtra * Pandurang Narayan Salunkhe, Freedom fighter from Satara district
== References == {{reflist}}
== Further reading == *{{cite book|author=Prashant Kidambi|title=The making of an Indian metropolis: colonial governance and public culture in Bombay, 1890-1920|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=N2O76-0buuUC|year=2007|publisher=Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.|isbn=978-0-7546-5612-8}} *{{cite book|author=Gujarat (India)|title=Gujarat State gazetteers|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=byIbAAAAIAAJ|volume=19|year=1984|publisher=Directorate of Govt. Print., Stationery and Publications, Gujarat State}} *{{cite book|author=John Vincent Ferreira|title=Totemism in India|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=4XGwAAAAIAAJ|year=1965|publisher=Indian Branch, Oxford University Press}}
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