Nandshankar Tuljashankar Mehta was an Indian Gujarati language author and social reformer.
12 Facts About Nandshankar Mehta
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Nandshankar Mehta is known for Karan Ghelo, the first original novel in Gujarati.
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Nandshankar Mehta was born on 21 April 1835 at Surat to Nagar Brahmin family of Gangalaxmi and Tuljashankar Mehta.
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Nandshankar Mehta started his studies in English medium school at the age of ten.
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Sir Theodore Hope, a member of Government Textbooks' Committee who had joined the Surat Municipality convinced Mehta to join Indian Civil Service.
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Nandshankar Mehta joined the Revenue Department as a Mamlatdar of Ankleshwar.
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Nandshankar Mehta was a social and religious reformer who was educated in western academics.
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Nandshankar Mehta was closely associated with several social organisations which were involved in education of women; widow remarriage; abolishing caste ban on foreign travel; opposition of untouchability, superstitions and supernatural.
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Nandshankar Mehta was a member of the Buddhivardhak Sabha which was established in Bombay in 1851.
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Nandshankar Mehta was the father of Manubhai Mehta and the grandfather of Hansa Mehta.
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Nandshankar Mehta wrote his only novel Karan Ghelo which he started in 1863 and completed in 1866.
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Nandshankar Mehta translated R G Bhandarkar's Sanskrit Margopadeshika and an English textbook on trigonometry into Gujarati.