The recent well-known personalities from Sarpotdars are the veteran historian and Ex-Vice-Chancellor of University of Pune 'Padmabhushan' Mahamahopadhyaya Datto Vaman Potdar and Ex Parliamentary Leader of ‘Shivsena’ Madhukar Sarpotdar.
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In 1702, a memorandum of understanding was signed between Pratinidhi & Aurangzeb as a result of which Fort Vishalgad was handed over to the Mughals for a huge consideration.The younger son of Rango Narayan namely Shamji Ranganth, however, made a conspiracy with other two officials and handed over the Fort back to the Marathas in 1707.