Family Life

1. Tukaram was born in 1608, in the small village of Dehu in the West Indian state of Maharashtra to Bolhoba and Kanakai a couple.Despite their lower class status the family was well to do and enjoyed good social standing in the village. 
2. Tukaram was the second of three brothers, the names of the other two being Savji and Kanhoba. Savji had no worldly ambitions and the father was religiously inclined and thus the family burden fell on Tukaram when he was just thirteen years old.Shortly thereafter, both his parents died. 
3. Tukaram lost his first wife, Rakhumabai and three childrens, during a disease related to famine . 
4. His second wife was Jijabai (also called Avali). He had three sons, named Santu or Mahadev, Vithoba and Narayana. Narayana was considerably younger than Mahadev and Vithoba, and was a great bhakta like his father.
5. After his father died, Tukaram waived loans that poor owed to him. He is said to have destroyed the loan records.