Early Life
Ramchandra Pant was born to a Deshastha Brahmin family in approximately 1650. He was the youngest son of Neelkanth Sondeo Bahutkar (more popularly known as ‘Nilo Sondeo’) who had risen from a local revenue collection post (Kulkarni) to the post of Minister in the court of Shivaji.
His family originally hailed from the village Kolwan near Kalyan Bhiwandi. Ramchandra Pant's grandfather Sonopant and uncle Abaji Sondeo were in the close circle of Shivaji. The Bahutkar family was closely associated with Samarth Ramdas, the spiritual guru of Shivaji - Samarth Ramdas is believed to be the one who named the newly born child as Ramchandra.
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