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Harish Narayan Prabhu Zantye

Indian politician

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
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Source revisionApr 24, 2026
Entity authorityQ115766960 ↗
Source-derived summary

Harish Narayan Prabhu Zantye was an Indian politician who served as Member of 10th Lok Sabha from North Goa Lok Sabha constituency and Member of Goa Legislative Assembly from Maem Assembly constituency. He also served as Minister of Social Welfare in Government of Goa.

Personal life

He was born on 22 September 1935 in Malvan, Sindhudurg district. He married Pushpa H. Zantye on 15 February 1966 and got one son and three daughter. He is the father of Pravin Zantye. On 20 March 2021, he died at the age of 86.

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This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Harish Narayan Prabhu Zantye” as indian politician. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA productive starting point for separating a subject’s documented career from later reputation and commemoration. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1935, 1966, 2021—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1935-09-22. The account is most persuasive where Harish, Narayan and Prabhu can be independently traced.
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The subject matters to the people & ideas register because the source frames it as indian politician. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

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Chronology provides the most reliable spine for this subject; interpretation should follow only after identities and dates are secure. The source revision retrieved here is dated Apr 24, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q115766960. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1935, 1966 and 2021.

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This entry incorporates text from “Harish Narayan Prabhu Zantye” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.