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10 Facts About Ramprasad Bakshi

1.

Ramprasad Premshankar Bakshi was a Gujarati writer, scholar, translator and editor from India.

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Ramprasad Bakshi was born on 27 June 1894 in Junagadh.

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Ramprasad Bakshi completed his schooling from Rajkot, Wadhwan and matriculated in 1910.

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Ramprasad Bakshi graduated in 1914 from Gujarat College, Ahmedabad, with Sanskrit, and moved to Mumbai in 1915.

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Ramprasad Bakshi started his career as a teacher at Anandilal Poddar High School and retired from there from the post of its principal.

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Ramprasad Bakshi served as the professor of Gujarati at Mithibai College, Mumbai for several years.

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Ramprasad Bakshi was the president of the 28th session of the Gujarati Sahitya Parishad.

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Ramprasad Bakshi was a student of Anandshankar Dhruv and Narsinhrao Divetia.

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Ramprasad Bakshi studied profoundly both Sanskrit and English literature, and is regarded as the representative of the period known in the history of Gujarati literature as 'Panditayuga'.

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Ramprasad Bakshi edited Narsinhrao's diary, known as Rojanishi, in collaboration with Dhansukhlal Mehta.