Sumant Mehta was a physician, independence activist and social worker from 20th-century India.
21 Facts About Sumant Mehta
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Sumant Mehta was born in Surat on 1 July 1877 in a Vadnagara Nagar Brahmin family.
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Sumant Mehta's father Batukram Shobharam Mehta was a personal physician of the Sayajirao Gaekwad III of Baroda State and had studied in England.
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Sumant Mehta was a maternal grandson of Gujarati novelist Nandshankar Mehta.
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Sumant Mehta had his school education in Baroda and Bombay.
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Sumant Mehta studied at a medical college in Bombay for three years.
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Sumant Mehta was a medical student then and four years older than her.
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Sumant Mehta completed his medical education and received MBChB from Victoria University of Manchester in 1901.
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Sumant Mehta served as a Sanitary Commissioner of the Baroda State.
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Sumant Mehta served as a medical officer in Baroda and Navsari.
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Sumant Mehta was influenced by Maharani of Baroda Chimnabai II.
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Sumant Mehta attended the Indian National Congress in Calcutta in 1906.
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Sumant Mehta left his services to the Gaekwads and entered public life in 1921 with his wife.
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Sumant Mehta participated in the relief work of the flood in Gujarat in 1927.
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Sumant Mehta was in charge of the Sarbhon camp with his wife during the 1928 Bardoli Satyagraha.
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Sumant Mehta established an Ashram in Shertha village near Kalol in 1936.
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Sumant Mehta worked for the welfare of farmers, labourers and tribal people.
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Sumant Mehta was arrested and imprisoned in Jalalpore Jail for his participation in the civil disobedience movement.
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Sumant Mehta spent five years in the jails of Sabarmati, Visapur and Nashik for his participation in the independence movement.
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Sumant Mehta wrote an autobiography titled Atmakatha which was posthumously published in 1971.
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Sumant Mehta had described Hali, a form of slavery of the tribals in the latter.