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{{Short description|Gujarati critic and a scholar on Mahatma Gandhi}}
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| education = BA, Gujarati and Sanskrit, [[Gujarat University]], 1962<br>MA, Gujarati and Sanskrit, Gujarat University, 1965<br> PhD, 1976
| thesis_title = Gandhijinu Jeevan Ane Temna Siddhanto (Life and Philosophy of Gandhi)
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| discipline = [[Gujarati language]], [[Gandhian philosophy]]
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| workplaces = Valiya Arts and Mehta Commerce College
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'''Daksha Vijayshankar Pattani''' (4 November 1938 – 10 March 2019) was a [[Gujarati language|Gujarati]] academic and author from India. She was noted as a scholar on [[Mahatma Gandhi]]; her 1976 doctoral thesis on Gandhi's philosophy was later published in six volumes.

==Early life and education==
Daksha Pattani was born on 4 November 1938 in [[Bhavnagar]] in the Prashnora [[Nagar Brahmin]] family of Shantaben and Vijayshankar Kanji Pattani, a scholar and writer. She was a younger sister of writer Mukundrai Parasharya and niece of [[Prabhashankar Pattani]], erstwhile prime minister of [[Bhavnagar State]]. She completed her primary and secondary education in Bhavnagar. She received a BA in Gujarati and Sanskrit in 1962, an MA in the same subjects in 1965, and a PhD under the guidance of Ishwarlal R. Dave in 1976. She received these degrees from [[Gujarat University]].<ref name=":0">{{Cite book|title=ગુજરાતી સાહિત્યનો ઇતિહાસ (સ્વાતંત્રયોત્તર યુગ - 2)|last=Shah|first=Kirtida|publisher=K. L. Study Centre, [[Gujarati Sahitya Parishad]]|isbn=9788193907412|editor-last=Desai|editor-first=Parul Kandarp|series=8|volume=2|location=Ahmedabad|publication-date=November 2018|pages=324–325|language=gu|trans-title=History of Gujarati Literature (Post-independence Era - 2)}}</ref><ref name="Pathak2019" /><ref>{{Cite book|script-title=gu:ગુજરાતના અધ્યાપકોનો માહિતીકોશ|publisher=Gujaratino Adhyapak Sangh|year=1988|oclc=20823629|editor-last=Rawal|editor-first=Vinayak|location=Ahmedabad|pages=45|language=gu|title=Gujaratna Adhyapakono Mahitikosh|trans-title=An introduction of Professors teaching Gujarati in Various Universities of India|editor-last2=Jani|editor-first2=Balwant|editor-last3=Modi|editor-first3=Manhar}}</ref> Her doctoral thesis was titled ''Gandhijinu Jeevan Ane Temna Siddhanto'' (Life and Philosophy of Gandhi).<ref name="Pathak2019" />

==Career==
Pattani taught Gujarati at the Gharshala school in Bhavnagar from 1962 to 1965.<ref name=":1">{{Cite journal|last=Parasharya|first=Piyush|date=May 2019|editor-last=Parikh|editor-first=Dhirubhai|editor-link=Dhiru Parikh|script-title=gu:દક્ષાબહેન પટ્ટણી|title=Dakshabahen Pattani|journal=[[Kumar (magazine)|Kumar]]|language=gu|volume=95|issue=5|pages=58–60}}</ref> She taught at the Gurukul Mahila Arts College in [[Porbandar]] from 1969 to 1970 and later served as a professor at the Valiya Arts and Mehta Commerce College in Bhavnagar from 1970 until her retirement in 2001. She also served as a part-time professor of Gujarati and Gandhian Philosophy at the [[Maharaja Krishnakumarsinhji Bhavnagar University|Bhavnagar University]] from 1977 to 1994. She served part-time with the [[Gujarat Vidyapith]] and Lokbharati in [[Sanosara]].<ref name=":0" /><ref name=":2">{{Cite journal|last=Pathak|first=Ajay|date=1 April 2019|editor-last=Shah|editor-first=Prakash N.|script-title=gu:સ્મરણાંજલિ: સ્વ. દક્ષાબહેન વિજયશંકર પટ્ટણી|title=Smarananjali: Sva. Dakshabahen Vijayshankar Pattani|trans-title=Obituary: Late Dakshabahen Vijayshankar Pattani|url=https://nirikshakgujaratipakshik.files.wordpress.com/2019/03/1-april-2019-nireekshak.pdf|journal=Nirikshak|issue=7|pages=13–14|access-date=14 June 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190614130125/https://nirikshakgujaratipakshik.files.wordpress.com/2019/03/1-april-2019-nireekshak.pdf|archive-date=14 June 2019|url-status=live}}</ref> From 1982 to 2013, she was a member of a committee propagating [[Gandhism|Gandhian philosophy]] formed by the Bhavnagar-based organisation, Gandhismriti.<ref name=":2" />

She died on 10 March 2019 after suffering from [[Cardiovascular disease|heart disease]].<ref name="Pathak2019">{{cite journal|last=Pathak|first=Ajay|date=May 2019|editor-last=Doshi|editor-first=Deepak|title=સ્વ. દક્ષાબહેન વિજયશંકર પટ્ટણી|trans-title=Late Dakshabahen Vijayshankar Pattani|journal=Navneet Samarpan|language=gu|publisher=P. V. Shankarankutti, [[Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan]]|publication-place=Mumbai|volume=40|issue=1|pages=113–115|issn=2455-4162}}</ref><ref name=":1" /><ref name=":2" />

==Works==
The chapters of Pattani's doctoral thesis were published in six volumes:<ref name="Pathak2019" /> ''Gandhijinu Chintan'' (1980), ''Gandhijina Vyaktitvanu Ghadtar'' (1981), ''Gandhiji: Dharmavicharna'' (1984), ''Gandhivichar – Satya Ane Ahimsa'' (2000), ''Gandhijina Vicharma Satyagraha'' (2001), ''Gandhijinu Chintan: Mulyankan'' (2003).<ref name=":0" /><ref name=":1" /> The first two volumes in the series were awarded the Bhagini Nivedita Prize by the [[Gujarati Sahitya Parishad]]. These works examine images of Gandhi from various angles. According to Kirtida Shah, Pattani's perspective on Gandhi and his philosophy is unique.<ref name=":0" /><ref name="Pathak2019" /> Pattani's more than fifty essays, criticism and lectures are published in other edited works.<ref name="Pathak2019" /><ref name=":1" />

==See also==
* [[List of Gujarati-language writers]]

==References==
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