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'''Dr. Gaurang Jani''' is a sociologist and a retired professor.<ref name=":2">{{Cite web |title=Gujarat OBC Commission mulls conducting survey of Patel community |url=https://www.business-standard.com/article/pti-stories/guj-obc-commission-mulls-conducting-survey-of-patel-community-116042701204_1.html |website=Business Standard}}</ref> He is an activist for the rights of sex workers and of the [[LGBT]] and [[queer]] communties.<ref>{{Cite news |date=2003-09-03 |title=Giving sex workers their due |work=The Times of India |url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/ahmedabad-times/giving-sex-workers-their-due/articleshow/162644.cms?from=mdr |access-date=2023-09-02 |issn=0971-8257}}</ref><ref name=":4">{{Cite web |title=Gujarat: Two women 'in love' end lives by jumping into river |url=https://www.theweek.in/news/india/2018/06/12/gujarat-two-women-in-love-end-lives-by-jumping-into-river.html |access-date=2023-09-02 |website=The Week |language=en}}</ref>

{{Infobox person
| name = Gaurang Jani
| nationality = Indian
| education = M.A., M.Phil., Ph,D.
| occupation = Sociologist
| organization = [[Gujarat University]]
| title = Professor
}}

==Career==
Jani was a member of the faculty at [[Gujarat University]] in [[Ahmedabad]].<ref>{{Cite web |last=Kumar |first=Raksha |title=Hindu right rewriting Indian textbooks |url=https://www.aljazeera.com/features/2014/11/4/hindu-right-rewriting-indian-textbooks |access-date=2023-09-02 |website=www.aljazeera.com |language=en}}</ref>

Jani was an advisor to the Gujarat State OBC Commission.<ref name=":2" /> He is a critic of casteism and communalism.<ref name=":5">{{Cite web |title=Gujarat Assembly election: OBCs, intermediate castes can sway poll outcome in 70 seats |url=https://www.indiatoday.in/india/west/story/gujarat-assembly-election-obcs-can-sway-poll-outcome-123022-2012-11-30 |access-date=2023-09-02 |website=India Today |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |date=2014-07-29 |title=Gujarat textbooks never far from controversy |language=en-IN |work=The Hindu |url=https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/gujarat-textbooks-never-far-from-controversy/article6261520.ece |access-date=2023-09-02 |issn=0971-751X}}</ref>

Jani's focus of research has been the sex workers of Ahmedabad through his association as a consultant with an NGO called Jyoti Sangh.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Fung |first=Isaac C.-H. |last2=Guinness |first2=Lorna |last3=Vickerman |first3=Peter |last4=Watts |first4=Charlotte |last5=Vannela |first5=Gangadhar |last6=Vadhvana |first6=Jagdish |last7=Foss |first7=Anna M. |last8=Malodia |first8=Laxman |last9=Gandhi |first9=Meena |last10=Jani |first10=Gaurang |date=2007-08-06 |title=Modelling the impact and cost-effectiveness of the HIV intervention programme amongst commercial sex workers in Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India |url=https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/17683595/ |journal=BMC public health |volume=7 |pages=195 |doi=10.1186/1471-2458-7-195 |issn=1471-2458 |pmc=1999496 |pmid=17683595}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=For women, by women, but bogged down by stagnation |url=https://www.dnaindia.com/india/report-for-women-by-women-but-bogged-down-by-stagnation-1294682 |access-date=2023-09-02 |website=DNA India |language=en}}</ref>

Jani runs a publishing house named Anmol Prakashan.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2023-03-05 |title=Book on 65 Gandhian women launched |url=https://indianexpress.com/article/cities/ahmedabad/book-on-65-gandhian-women-launched/ |access-date=2023-09-02 |website=The Indian Express |language=en}}</ref>

==Works==

* દલિતો ના પ્રશ્નો: સર્વેક્ષણ ના અનુભવો.<ref name=":0">{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=AcSwAAAAIAAJ&newbks=0&hl=en |title=Economic and Political Weekly |date=2001-11-03 |publisher=Sameeksha Trust |language=en}}</ref>
* કોરોના: બિંબ-પ્રતિબિંબ—વાત લોકડાઉનની. અણમોલ પ્રકાશન.<ref name=":3">{{Cite web |date=2020-10-22 |title=પીડા, ગુસ્સો અને નિઃસહાયતાનું મનમિશ્રણ {{!}} Opinion Magazine |url=https://opinionmagazine.co.uk/peedaa-gusso-ane-nihsahaayataanun-manmishran/ |access-date=2023-08-31 |language=en-GB}}</ref>
* વિદ્યા વધે એવી આશે.<ref name=":1">{{Cite web |date=2015-11-05 |title=પ્રગટ્યું પુસ્તક ‘વિદ્યા વધે એવી આશે’ {{!}} Opinion Magazine |url=https://opinionmagazine.co.uk/pragatyun-pustak-vidya-vadhe-evi-aashe/ |access-date=2023-08-31 |language=en-GB}}</ref>

== References ==

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