Indulal yagnik autobiography range

This review discusses the English translation of Indulal Yagnik's six-volume autobiography, highlighting its significance for understanding twentieth-century.
His six-volume autobiography Atmakatha, written in phases at different points of his life, is a valuable resource to understand the socio-.
For example, the biography, autobiography, personality, political trajectory, and voice of Indulal Yagnik is used to critique the civic leadership of the.

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Mahagujarat stir sprang out of Dang

AHMEDABAD: What language do people in the tribal district of Dang speak? It might seem like an innocuous question today, but it was enough to spark the movement to carve out Gujarat from Bombay as part of the Mahagujarat movement in the 1950s. This trigger has been mentioned in the autobiography of Gujarat’s architect, Indulal Yagnik.
His book was translated into English recently by scholars Devvrat Pathak, John Wood and Howard Spodek.Yagnik wrote that the then Bombay chief minister B G Kher and his home minister Morarji Desai visited Dang in May 1949 and made a statement that the real language of people of the Dang was Marathi, and therefore attention must be given to that language alone.
Many Gujaratis felt offended. “The statement appeared like a sudden bolt of lightning on the people of Gujarat,” Yagnik wrote in his autobiography.
“I felt very disturbed with such statements,” he added and decided to visit Dang. Yagnik, however, admitted there was little information about Dang in Gujarat, except that many Gujaratis had their timber b

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May 1 is marked as International Labour Day to commemorate the struggles of workers, and labour movements, and celebrate their role in society. In Gujarat the day has an added significance as Gujarat Foundation Day. May 1 marks the day that two new states–Gujarat and Maharashtra were carved out of the erstwhile Bombay state in 1960.

One name that it intrinsically linked with this historic moment is that of Indulal Yagnik who spearheaded the movement for a separate state of Gujarat. Indulal was the founder president of the Mahagujarat Janata Parishad that launched the movement which came to be known as the Mahagujarat Movement, in 1956. But Indulal’s activism well preceded this phase of his life which spanned many significant periods in Indian political life. A life that was not limited to public engagement, but also covered a wide range of interests, and contributions including to journalism, literature, and films.

Indulal was born in 1892 in Nadiad in Gujarat, and completed his higher education in Bombay, graduating with BA as well as LLB degrees.

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Howard Spodek.Ahmedabad: Shock City of Twentieth-Century India. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2011. 352 pp. $49.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-253-35587-4.

Reviewed by Preeti Chopra (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
Published on H-Asia (March, 2013)
Commissioned by Sumit Guha (The University of Texas at Austin)

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