![]() Her parents later renamed her Lata after a female character, Latika, in one of her father’s plays, BhaawBandhan. The family’s last name used to be Hardikar Deenanath changed it to Mangeshkar in order to identify his family with his native town, Mangeshi in Goa. Lata’s maternal grandfather was Gujarati businessman Seth Haridas Ramdas Lad, a prosperous businessman and landlord of Thalner and Mangeshkar learnt Gujarati folk songs such as garbas of Pavagadh from her maternal grandmother. Lata’s paternal grandfather, Ganesh Bhatt Navathe Hardikar (Abhisheki), was a Karhade Brahmin priest who performed the abhishekam of the Shiva lingam at the Mangueshi Temple in Goa, and her paternal grandmother, Yesubai Rane, belonged to the Gomantak Maratha Samaj community of Goa. Her mother, Shevanti (later renamed Shudhamati), a Gujarati woman from Thalner, Bombay Presidency (now in northwest Maharashtra), was Deenanath’s second wife his first wife Narmada, who had died, was Shevanti’s older sister. ![]() Her father, Pandit Deenanath Mangeshkar, was a classical singer and theatre actor. Lata Mangeshkar was born in 1929, the eldest daughter of Pandit Deenanath Mangeshkar, a Marathi and Konkani musician and his wife Shevanti in Indore (in present-day Madhya Pradesh and then the capital of the princely state of Indore which was part of the Central India Agency in British India).
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