Early Years
The Palwankar family belong to the Chamar caste, which suffered from the stigma of "untouchability" and caste discrimination. (See Dilip K. Menon, Cultural History of Modern India, Chapter 1 : Ramachandra Guha The Heroic Struggles of the Palwankar Brothers. pgs 1-32. 2007, Bergahn Books, A Corner Of A Foreign Field, Ramachandra Guha, Picador India, 2002 and his autobiography, Majhe Crida Jeevan.). Born in 1886, Vithal was introduced to cricket by his elder brother Palwankar Baloo, who later sent him to attend the Elphinstone College High School in Mumbai (then Bombay), where he began playing cricket seriously.
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