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{{Infobox person<br />
|name=Nrusinhprasad Kalidas Bhatt<br />
|birth_date = 11 November 1882<br />
|death_date = 31 December 1961 <br> (age 79)<br />
|caption= Nanabhai Bhatt<br />
|birth_place=[[Bhavnagar]], [[Gujarat]], [[India]]<br />
|death_place=[[Bhavnagar]], [[Gujarat]], [[India]]<br />
|known_for=Education, Reforms, Rural Welfare, Dakshinamurti, Lokbharti<br />
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'''Nanabhai Bhatt''', born '''Nrusinhprasad Kalidas Bhatt''', (11 November 1882 – 31 December 1961) was an Indian educator, writer, thinker and [[Indian independence movement|Indian independence]] activist. Bhatt was a contemporary of educators [[Gijubhai Badheka]] and Harbhai Trivedi. The three worked to advance rural education. Bhatt died on 31 December 1961.<br />
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==Early life ==<br />
Bhatt was born on 11 November 1882, in [[Bhavnagar]]. He attended [[Samaldas Arts College]] there, where he completed his M.A.<br />
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== Career ==<br />
He started his career as a principal at a high school in [[Mahuva, Bhavnagar]], Gujarat, and became a professor at Shamaldas College. From 1908-1915, the concept and fulfilment of Dakshinamurti Vidhyarthi Bhavan, a residential educational institute, was gradually accomplished. The institute was formally established in 1910.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.yale.edu/macmillan/southasia/saim/recollections/bhatt.pdf |title=South Asian Freedom Struggle}}</ref><br />
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Bhatt was a thinker and reformer. He became Vice Chancellor at [[Gujarat Vidyapith]], and during 1925-28 as Vice-Chancellor of Gujarat Vidyapith. In 1938, he established Gram Dakshinamurti, an Institute of Basic Education at Ambala, [[Sihor]] Taluka, targeting education in rural areas.<br />
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===Lokbharti ===<br />
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He became Minister of Education in [[Saurashtra (region)|Saurashtra]] state in 1948. In 1953, he founded Lokbharti, a university for rural villagers who otherwise lacked access to higher education, in [[Sanosara]], [[Gujarat]]. Lokbharti is based on the vision and message of [[Mahatma Gandhi]] of a strong and self-sufficient rural India.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.lokbharti.org/History|title=Lokbharti Gramvidyapith|last=Gorana|first=Atul Pandya, Pankaj|website=www.lokbharti.org|language=en-US|access-date=2017-11-13}}</ref><br />
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Bhatt founded other educational institutions such as Dakshinamurti Vidyarthi Bhavan / Dakshinamurti Vinay Mandir - Bhavnagar, Gram Dakshinamurti - Ambala.<ref>{{cite book|last=Amaresh Datta|title=The Encyclopaedia Of Indian Literature (Volume One (A To Devo), Volume 1|year=1987|publisher=Sahitya Akademi|isbn=978-81-260-1803-1|pages=473|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ObFCT5_taSgC&q=Nanabhai+Bhatt&pg=PA473}}</ref><br />
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==Philanthropy and other works==<br />
Bhatt devoted his life to the welfare of rural communities and education. He wrote and published books and publications from 1920 to 1959, focusing on education, religion, humanity, social science, history, self help and character development. He remained an active 'Satyagrahi' and a freedom fighter for the [[Indian independence movement]]. He was arrested multiple times for this activity. According to the famous Gujarati writer [[Manubhai Pancholi]], Bhatt had a good knowledge of [[Sanskrit]] classical texts such as the [[Upnishads|Upanishads]]. A member of [[Rajya Sabha]] from 1954–57,<ref>{{cite web|title=Alphabetical List Of All Members Of Rajya Sabha Since 1952|url=http://164.100.47.5/Newmembers/alphabeticallist_all_terms.aspx}}</ref> Bhatt was awarded [[Padma Shri]] in 1960 for "Social Work".{{fact|date=February 2020}}<br />
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==References==<br />
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==External links==<br />
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20111006034418/http://www.shreedakshinamurtivinaymandir.org/index.html Dakshinamurti Vinay Mandir]<br />
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20131225235452/http://lokbharti.org/founder.asp Lokbharti, Sanosara]<br />
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