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Manubhai Pancholi

Other names of Manubhai Pancholi: Manoobhai Pancholi, Manubhai Panchole, Manoobhai Panchole

DOB : 15-10-1914
Date of death: 29-08-2001
Lived For : 86 Years
Star Sign : Libra
Gender : Male

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Late Manubhai Pancholi was a great writer, author, educationist, novelist and politician from Gujarat, India. He was born on 15 October 1914 in Panchashiya, Morbi District, Gujarat. He completed his early education at Tithwa Lunsar, Wankaner, but left his studies in 1930 to participate in Salt Satyagraha by Gandhiji. He also got imprisoned in Sabarmati, Nasik and Visapur for participating in the civil disobedience movement. Manubhai began his career in 1932 as an educational head at Dakshinamurti, Bhavnagar. In 1938, he joined Gramdakshinamurt in Ambala as a professor. He got imprisoned again in 1942 during Quit India Movement, another movement by Gandhiji, at Bhavnagar.

After releasing from jail, Manubhai Pancholi served as an education minister at Bhavnagar State in 1948. From 1967 to 1971, he was a member of the Gujarat Legislative Academy and served again as an education minister in 1970. In 1953 Manubhai co-founded Lokbharti Gramvidyapith Institute in Sanosara with another Indian educator, Nanabhai Bhatt Nanabhai Bhatt is an Indian-Director. He was also >> Read More... . He got imprisoned a third time during the emergency period in India in 1975. From 1981 to 1983, Manubhai was the president of Gujarati Sahitya Parishad, and from 1991 to 1998, he served as chairman of Gujarati Sahitya Akademi.

He married a Patidar family girl, Vijayaben Patel, from Varad village. She died on 25 April 1995. Manubhai Pancholi has influenced by Gandhiji and tried to follow his thinking and ideologies through his writings. He became a great novelist in Gujarati literature and wrote numerous books and novels translated into Hindi by several writers. Some of the popular writings by Manubhai Pancholi with the penname Darshak, are Jaliawala (1934), Adharaso Sattavan (1935), Bandhan ane Mukti (1938), Bandeeghar (1939), Prem ane Pooja (1939), Jher To Pidha Chhe Jani Jani (1952), Triveni Tirth (1955), Dharmachakra Parivartan (1956), Vagishwari Na Karnaphoolo (1963), Mari Vachankatha (1969), Sarvodaya Ane Shikshan (1974), Mahabharat No Marma (1978), Antim Adhyaya (1983), and many more.

Manubhai Pancholi won several honours and awards for his contributions to Gujarati literature. He won Ranjitram Suvarna Chandrak Medal in 1964, Sahitya Akademi Award for Socrates in 1975, he won Bharatiya Jnanpith Moortidevi Award in 1987 for Jher To Pidha Chhe Jani Jani, Jamnalal Bajaj Award in 1996, and Saraswati Samman in 1997 for Kurukshetra. Manubhai Pancholi also received the third-highest civilian award in the country, Padma Bhushan, in 1991. He died of kidney failure on 29 August 2001 in Bhavnagar, Gujarat.