Ninad Gangadhar Bedekar (17 August 1949 – 10 May 2015) was a historian,[1][2][3] writer and orator[4] from Pune, Maharashtra, India, writing and speaking in Marathi.

He was a life member Shri Shivaji Raigad Smarak Mandal - Pune, Shri Shivaji Raigad Smarak Mandal – (Chairman) Maharastra Kalopasak, Pune – (Chairman).

Bedekar transliterated some rare documents written in Modi script about the Maratha empire that were found in the UK.

In 2003, Bedekar succeeded,[3] along with the Maratha-Hindu-nationalist organization, Shiv Sena, in having James Laine's academic monograph, Shivaji: Hindu king in Islamic India (Oxford University Press) banned in their state.

[7][8] He wrote the foreword[10] to the critically acclaimed book Solstice at Panipat by Uday Kulkarni.