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on 27 March 1860 to experience training colleges by
Education Department. After returning on 13 April 1861, he served as a principal of P. R. Training College in Ahmedabad until his retirement. He was excommunicated from community for twelve years by his Nagar Brahmin community for crossing the sea.
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and was appointed an assistant teacher in 1854. He was closely associated with reformist organisations; Gyan
Prasarak Sabha and Buddhivardhak Sabha in Bombay. He was later appointed an acting headmaster at the Ahmedabad High School in 1857 and later made a deputy education inspector there. In 1859,
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on 3 December 1829 to
Vadnagara Nagar Brahmin family of Rupram Nilkanth and Girijagauri. He lost his mother when he was one and half years old. He was engaged, when four years old, to three years old girl Parvatikunwar. He completed elementary education of local 'village school' in Gopipura,
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was also writer and he also served as a mayor of
Ahmedabad. An orphanage named Mahipatram Rupram Ashram was established on 17 December 1892 in Raipur, Ahmedabad in his memory which is now one of the largest and the oldest orphanages in India. British travel writer
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as well several other organisations seeking social reforms like widow remarriage, prohibition of child marriage. He had also served as commissioner and chairman of
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known as
Pranshankar Mehtaji's school. Later he joined Government English school. During his school days, he was influenced by his teachers and reformers
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314:(1862) in which he had described political, social, education condition of England then as well as descriptions of some popular places in England.
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He was not even allowed to perform last rites of his father. He had to seek compromise and went to several rituals to enter his community again.
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423:(1889). He had also written books on education, geography, geology, science, medicine which were mostly translated works for students.
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on 30 May 1891. His wife
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Later he joined his alma mater as an associated teacher in 1851. In 1852, he joined
Highschool department of
355:(1866) is about family life with mild humour which is considered as the first social novel in Gujarati.
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His initial, basic and historically important three novels of
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he was appointed a member of school textbooks committee, the textbooks known by
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educationist, reformer, novelist and biographer from 19th century India.
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respectively. They are chiefly based on folklores and cultural history.
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for ten months in 1857. In 1885, he was awarded Rao Saheb and
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Gujarฤta and Its
Literature: A Survey from the Earliest Times
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Mahipatram Rupram Ashram, founded in 1892 in Raipur area of
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From 1856 onward, he wrote booklets on life-sketches of
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Marching to a
Different Beat: The Nilkanths of Gujarat
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He wrote the first travelogue of Gujarati literature,
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magazine in 1850 and also edited educational monthly
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606:"The itchy feet gene"
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686:Categories
636:"About Us"
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488:Mahipatram
455:References
394:Bodhvachan
232:T. C. Hope
156:mahipatram
91:Occupation
58:1829-12-03
345:Akbarnama
300:Pico Iyer
291:Ahmedabad
283:Ahmedabad
248:Parhejdar
142:Pico Iyer
138:Relatives
85:Ahmedabad
26:Rao Saheb
668:(1935).
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128:Children
103:Gujarati
99:Language
240:England
149:Website
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227:Bombay
120:Spouse
115:(1862)
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376:Vesha
340:Akbar
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