Ravishankar Vyas, better known as Ravishankar Maharaj, was an Indian independence activist, social worker and Gandhian from Gujarat.
16 Facts About Ravishankar Vyas
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Ravishankar Vyas was born on 25 February 1884, Mahashivaratri, in Radhu village to Pitambar Sivram Vyas and Nathiba, a Vadara Brahmin peasant family.
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Ravishankar Vyas's family was native of Sarsavani village near Mahemdavad.
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Ravishankar Vyas dropped out after the sixth standard to help his parents in agriculture work.
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Ravishankar Vyas's father died when he was 19 and his mother died when he was 22.
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Ravishankar Vyas met Mahatma Gandhi in 1915 and joined his independence and social activism.
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Ravishankar Vyas was one of the earliest and closest associates of Gandhi and Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel, and along with Darbar Gopaldas Desai, Narhari Parikh and Mohanlal Pandya, the chief organizer of nationalist revolts in Gujarat in the 1920s and 1930s.
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Ravishankar Vyas worked for years for rehabilitation of Baraiya and Patanvadiya castes of coastal central Gujarat.
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Ravishankar Vyas founded Rashtriya Shala in Sunav village in 1920.
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Ravishankar Vyas left his rights on ancestral property against wish of wife and joined Indian Independence Movement in 1921.
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Ravishankar Vyas participated in Borsad Satyagraha in 1923 and protested against Haidiya Tax.
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Ravishankar Vyas participated in Bardoli Satyagraha in 1928 and was imprisoned by British authority for six months.
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Ravishankar Vyas participated in relief work of flood in 1927 which earned him recognition.
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Ravishankar Vyas joined Gandhi in Salt March in 1930 and was imprisoned for two years.
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Ravishankar Vyas joined Vinoba Bhave in Bhoodan Movement and travelled 6000 kilometres between 1955 and 1958.
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Ravishankar Vyas died on 1 July 1984 in Borsad, Gujarat.