Pandurang Purushottam Shirodkar (12 December 1916 – 5 September 2000) was a campaigner, author and the first speaker of the Goa Legislative Assembly. He was born in Goa in Portuguese India. He studied law and worked as an editor of the Navshakti daily newspaper in Mumbai.

Later he participated actively in Goa's struggle for freedom from Portuguese colonial rule and was in exile in Africa and Portugal for many years. He was a member of the Indian National Congress and a prominent figure in the Maharashtrawadi Gomantak Party.

Pandurang Purushottam Shirodkar

Shirodkar authored many books in Marathi, Konkani, English and Portuguese, and translated Bal Gangadhar Tilak's Shrimadbhagwadgeetarahasya into Portuguese.

Pandurang Purushottam Shirodkar

See also

Goa Legislative Assembly

References

Speakers of the Goa Legislative Assembly

Indian National Congress politicians from Goa

Maharashtrawadi Gomantak Party politicians

Goa, Daman and Diu MLAs 1963–1967

Goa liberation activists

1916 births

2000 deaths

Pandurang Purushottam Shirodkar