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'''Ambalal Sakarlal Desai''' (25 March 1844 – 12 September 1914) was a [[Gujarati language|Gujarati]] writer, translator, lexicographer, and judge from [[British Raj|British India]].<br />
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Desai was born in Alina near [[Nadiad]] in Kheda district in a [[Brahmakshatriya]] family<ref>{{Cite book |last=Hardiman |first=David |title=Peasant Nationalists of Gujarat: Kheda District 1917-1934 |publisher=Oxford University Press |year=1981 |pages=60}}</ref> and was one of the first Gujarati students to graduate from [[University of Mumbai|Bombay University]], receiving an MA and LLB (1870) after which he worked as a teacher. In 1876 he became a judge at Baroda and in his spare time he edited a periodical against [[child marriage]] called ''Bal-Lagna Nishedh Patrika''. In 1889 he became chief justice and was decorated [[Dewan Bahadur|Diwan Bahadur]] in 1900. He worked for Indian industrialists, supporting the [[Swadeshi movement]], and supported women's education. He wrote what has been considered as the first original Gujarati short story ''Shantidas'' (1900).<ref>{{cite book| page=1305|publisher=Sahitya Akademi |editor=Choudhuri, Indra Nath|title=Encyclopaedia of Indian Literature. Volume II|year=2011|isbn=9788126030804}}</ref><ref>{{cite book| url= https://archive.org/details/history-of-gujarati-literature/page/94/mode/1up|page=94| author=Jhaveri, Mansukhlal|author-link=Mansukhlal Jhaveri| publisher=Sahitya Akademi| place= New Delhi|title= History of Gujrati Literature| year= 1978}}</ref><br />
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Ambalal was a [[Brahmakshatriya]]. He was involved in the [[Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation]], [[Gujarat Vernacular Society]], [[Indian National Congress]], and [[Gujarati Sahitya Parishad]].<ref>{{Cite book |last=Isaka |first=Riho |title=Language, Identity, and Power in Modern India: Gujarat, c. 1850-1960 |publisher=Routledge |year=2022 |pages=59}}</ref><br />
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==See also==<br />
* [[List of Gujarati-language writers]]<br />
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== References ==<br />
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==Further reading==<br />
* {{cite book |last=Thakore |first=Balwantray |author-link=Balwantray Thakore |title=Ambalalbhai |url=https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.409684/ |year=1928 |language=gu}}<br />
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== External links ==<br />
* {{Gujarati Vishwakosh}}<br />
* [https://archive.org/details/dli.granth.78282 Arthashastra] (1875, translated by Desai)<br />
* [https://archive.org/details/dli.ernet.412096 Shantidas] (1900, in Gujarati)<br />
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