When the prominent Marathi historian VK Rajwade contested the upper-caste Kshatriya status claimed by the Chandraseniya Kayastha Prabhu (CKP) caste in a 1916 essay, Thackeray became one of his fiercest critics, and denounced his research as casteist.
Vishwanath Kashinath Rajwade | Vishwanath | ''New Vishwanath Temple'' also known as ''Birla Mandir'' in the Banaras Hindu University | Kashinath |