Madhav Sadashiv Gore (1921–2010) was an Indian social scientist, writer, academic and the chancellor of Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi.
[1] He was the Director of Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS), the vice-chancellor of the University of Mumbai[citation needed] and a recipient of the Life Time Achievement Award of Indian Sociological Society.
Gore was born on 15 August 1921 at Hubli in the south Indian state of Karnataka to Sadashiv Ramchandra and Venutai and completed his graduation with honors from University of Mumbai in 1942.
[2] After obtaining a master's degree in sociology from University of Mumbai in 1948, he started his career as a lecturer at the Delhi School of Social Work the same year where he served as the principal from 1953 to 1962.
[5] Afterwards, he returned to research on the backward class leadership in the state on a Homi Bhabha Fellowship but, a year later, he was appointed as the vice-chancellor of University of Mumbai, a post he held till 1986 when he resigned in protest from the position, allegedly due to a scandal involving award of extra marks to the daughter of Shivajirao Patil Nilangekar, the then chief minister of Maharashtra.