Summary:
However, ironic as it may sound, their community hails from Bihar, from where they migrated elsewhere, albeit around 2,500 years ago. This has been mentioned in 'The Cousins Thackeray: Uddhav, Raj and the Shadow of Their Senas' (Penguin Random House), which the first political biography of the warring Thackeray cousins penned by journalist Dhaval Kulkarni. The book quotes 'Prabodhankar' Keshav Sitaram Thackeray, the social reformer, journalist and author, who was late Shiv Sena chief Bal Thackeray's father. The book quotes the Thackeray family patriarch's autobiography, Majhi Jeevangatha (The Story of My Life), to state that his family originally hailed from Pali village in the small principality of Bhor. (The author of the book is a DNA journalist).