The Ancestry of the Thackerays has been a subject of interest for many, including researchers. in 2012,Shiv Sena chief Uddhav Thackeray had contested a claim by congress leader Digvijaya Singh that the ancestors of Bal Thackeray had come from Bihar to Maharashtra. Digvijaya Singh's claim was based on a book written by Bal Thackeray's father, Keshav Sitaram Thackeray.Keshav Thackeray, better know by his penname Prabodhankar Thackeray has been quoted by many authors writing on the family. In a recent book, The Cousins Thackeray : Uddhav, Raj and the Shadow of their Senas , journalist Dhaval Kulkarni quoted Keshav Thackeray from his book, Gramnyancha Sadyanta Itihas Arhat Nokarshahiche Bande [A History of Village Disputes or Rebellion of the Bureaucracy], to state that the Thackeray family moved from ancient Magadha [in present day Bihar] during the regn of Mahapadma Nanda, the lost king of the Nanda dynasty in the third or the fourth century BC.Keshav Thackeray seems to be the watershed personality in the Thackeray family. He was the the one who adopted the surname with an anglicised spelling. In his autobiography, Keshav Thackeray has written about adopting Thackeray as surname. One of his ancestors, he writes in his autobiography, was a kiladar [custodian of fort] at the Dhodap fort of the Maratha empire. The Thackeray family apparently carried their ancestral family name, which was ''Thakre'', before moving to Dhodap. Keshav Thackeray's great-grandfather Krishnaji Madhav [popularly known as Appasaheb] lived at Pali in Raidgad district of Maharashtra. His grandfather, Sitaram Setteled in Panvel and adopted Panvelkar as surname.
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