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{{Infobox person<br />
| name = K. B. Desai<br />
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| birth_name = Khandubhai Bhimbhai Desai<br />
| birth_date = {{birth date|1897|9|3|df=y}}<br />
| birth_place = [[Sarbhan]], [[Bombay Presidency]], [[British India]] (now [[Gujarat]], India)<br />
| death_date = {{death date and age|1979|11|5|1897|9|3|df=y}}<br />
| death_place = [[Navsari]], Gujarat, India<br />
| occupation = Medical doctor<br />
| title = President of Navsari [[Municipal Council]]<br />
| party = [[Congress party|Congress]]<br />
| spouse = Lilavati Desai<br />
}}<br />
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'''K. B. Desai''' (3 September 1897 – 5 November 1979) was an Indian medical doctor, a local leader of [[Congress party|Congress]] from [[Navsari]] during the [[Indian independence movement]], and a social reformer. He was a [[Gandhians|Gandhian]].<ref name=":0" /><ref name=":1" /><ref name=":2" /><ref name=":3" /><ref name=":4" /><br />
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==Freedom struggle==<br />
[[Vallabhbhai Patel]] was imprisoned in the wake of the [[Salt March]] in 1930. Desai acted as a spokesperson for [[Mahatma Gandhi]] in [[Navsari]], organizing the local police as a strategy to help release Patel. He was imprisoned on multiple occasions for his role in the freedom struggle.<ref name=":0">{{Cite book |last=Patel |first=Vallabhbhai |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=sCluAAAAMAAJ |title=The Collected Works of Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel: 1932-1934 : Civil Disobedience Movement and Sardar Patel's Second Incarceration Death of Mother and Brother Vithalbhai |date=1994 |publisher=Konark Publishers |isbn=978-81-220-0343-7 |language=en}}</ref><ref name=":1">{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=wLu1AAAAIAAJ |title=Source Material for a History of the Freedom Movement in India: Mahatma Gandhi. pts. 1-7 |date=1969 |publisher=Printed at the Government Central Press |language=en}}</ref><ref name=":2">{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=vJYMp9OrIscC |title=Svātantrya saṅgrāmanā laḍavaiyā: Gujarāta Rājya |date=1969 |publisher=Māhitī Khātuṃ, Gujarāta Sarakāra |language=gu}}</ref><br />
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==President of Navsari Municipal Council==<br />
After independence in 1947, he served as President of Navsari Municipal Council (Nagarpalika Pramukh).<ref name=":3">{{Cite book |last=Gandhi |first=Chiman N. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ouFaDwAAQBAJ |title=I Did It My Ways: An Autobiography with Controversies |date=2018-05-16 |publisher=Notion Press |isbn=978-1-64249-776-2 |language=en}}</ref><br />
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==Medical career==<br />
Desai graduated with an [[Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery|M.B.B.S]]. from [[Mumbai|Bombay]] (Mumbai) in 1922. He obtained further medical training from [[Dublin]] and [[Vienna]]. Desai provided surgical, obstetric, dental and non-surgical care. He built and ran K. B. Desai Hospital in Navsari.<ref name=":4">{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=zvofAQAAMAAJ |title=The Maharashtra Medical Register |date=1968 |publisher=Maharashtra Medical Council. |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=oiggAQAAMAAJ |title=The Medical Directory ...: London, Provinces, Wales, Scotland, Ireland, Abroad, Navy, Army & Air Force |date=1961 |publisher=J. & A. Churchill, Limited |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last1=Kaura |first1=Ajīta |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=PAkuAAAAYAAJ |title=Directory of Indian Women Today, 1976 |last2=Caur |first2=Arpana |date=1976 |publisher=India International Publications |language=en}}</ref><br />
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==Social reform==<br />
Desai was actively involved in social reform movements. He opposed the caste system, admitting patients of all castes to his hospital and serving them food from a single kitchen using one set of utensils.<ref>{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-To8AAAAMAAJ |title=Jīvana Tathā Saṃskr̥ti: Śrī Paṃ. Ānandapriya Abhinandana-grantha |date=1976 |publisher=Śrī. Paṃ. Ānandapriya Abhinandana Grantha Samiti |language=hi}}</ref><br />
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==References==<br />
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[[Category:Indian independence activists from Gujarat]]<br />
[[Category:1897 births]]<br />
[[Category:1979 deaths]]<br />
[[Category:Medical doctors from Gujarat]]<br />
[[Category:Anti-caste activists]]<br />
[[Category:Gujarati people]]</div>VictoriaCoward4