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{{Short description|Gujarati writer and translator}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=September 2022}}
{{Infobox writer
| name = Prabhudas Gandhi
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| birth_name = Prabhudas Gandhi
| birth_date = {{Birth date|df=y|1901|12|4}}
| birth_place = [[Porbandar]], [[Bombay Presidency]], [[British Raj|British India]]
| death_date = {{Death date and age|df=y|1995|5|6|1901|12|4}}
| death_place = [[Rajkot]], [[Gujarat]], [[India]]
| occupation = Author and translator
| language = [[Gujarati language|Gujarati]]
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| awards = [[Narmad Suvarna Chandrak]] (1948)
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'''Prabhudas Gandhi''' (4 December 1901 – 6 May 1995) was an [[Indian people|Indian]] [[Gujarati language]] writer and translator.<ref name=Kanijia2010/> He was a son of [[Mahatma Gandhi]]'s nephew Chhaganlal Gandhi. He was awarded the [[Narmad Suvarna Chandrak]] (1948) for his book ''Jivannu Parodh''. ({{literal translation|Dawn of Life}}).<ref name="GServe"/>

== Biography ==
Prabhudas Gandhi was born to father Chhaganlal Gandhi and mother Kashibahen Devi, on 4 December 1901 at [[Porbandar]] (now in [[Gujarat]], [[India]]). In 1902, his father Chhaganlal Gandhi and uncle [[Maganlal Gandhi]] went to South Africa.<ref name="GServe">{{Cite web|title=Prabhudas Gandhi|url=https://gandhiserve.org/pg.html|access-date=29 September 2021|website=gandhiserve.org|archive-date=14 August 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220814182927/https://gandhiserve.org/pg.html|url-status=live}}</ref> Prabhudas arrived in South Africa with his mother in 1905. He spent his childhood at the [[Phoenix Settlement|Phoenix Ashram]] there.<ref name="GServe"/> In 1914, he returned to India and studied at [[Haridwar#Gurukul Kangri University|Gurukul Kangadi]], [[Haridwar]] and at [[Santiniketan]].<ref name=Kanijia2010/> In 1915, [[Mahatma Gandhi]] returned to India and established the [[Kochrab Ashram]] at Ahmedabad. Prabhudas was one of the original 25 inmates of the Ashram. In 1917, he participated in the [[Champaran Satyagraha]]<ref name=Kanijia2010>{{cite encyclopedia |last=Kanijia|first=Baldevbhai |editor-last=Thakar |editor-first=Dhirubhai |editor-link=Dhirubhai Thaker |encyclopedia=[[Gujarati Vishwakosh]] (ગુજરાતી વિશ્વકોશ) |title=Gandhi, Prabhudas Chhaganlal |language=gu |date=2010 |publisher=Gujarati Vishvkosh trust|volume=16 |location=Ahmedabad |pages= |oclc=}}</ref> and toured [[Bihar]] along with Gandhi and [[Kasturba Gandhi|Kasturba]]. During the [[Non-cooperation movement (1919–1922)|Non-cooperation movement]] in 1921, he worked with Mamasaheb Phalke in [[Godhra]] for the upliftment of [[Manual scavenging|manual scavengers]].<ref name="GServe"/>

He worked with [[Gulzarilal Nanda]] during the mill workers' strike at [[Ahmedabad]]. He worked as a tutor of [[spinning-wheel]] ([[Spinning wheel#Charkha|charkha]]) with [[Jugatram Dave]] at the Bardoli Swaraj Ashram in [[south Gujarat]]. He invented a new type of [[spinning-wheel#Charkha|charkha]] that could be operated with the user's feet. He named it the "Magan Charkha" in memory of his uncle [[Maganlal Gandhi]].<ref name="GServe"/><ref>{{cite book |title=Magan Rentiyo |trans-title=મગન રેંટિયો |date=February 1940 |publisher=Akhil Bharat Charkha Sangh |location=Ahmedabad |page=३ |edition=First |accessdate=13 August 2022 |language=gu |url=https://gandhiheritageportal.org/gu/ghp_booksection_detail/MTY5MC0yNDkwLTI=#page/1/mode/2up |archive-date=14 August 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220814182914/https://gandhiheritageportal.org/gu/ghp_booksection_detail/MTY5MC0yNDkwLTI=#page/1/mode/2up |url-status=live }}</ref>

In 1928, he was jailed for six months and sentenced to [[solitary confinement]] at [[Belgaum]] for participating in the [[Bardoli Satyagraha]] led by [[Vallabhbhai Patel]]. In 1929, when he was diagnosed with [[tuberculosis]], he followed Gandhi's advice and moved to [[Almora]] in the [[Himalayas]].<ref name="GServe"/> In 1933, he married Ambadevi at the Women's Ashram, [[Wardha]]. The wedding was attended by Gandhi and Kasturba. During the [[Quit India Movement]] of 1942, Prabhudas was sentenced to two-and-a-half years in prison and sent to [[Bareilly Central Jail|Bareilly jail]].<ref name=Kanijia2010/> In 1946, he worked closely with the government and voluntary organizations in rural areas of Delhi and [[Uttar Pradesh]]. He also worked for Vinoba Bhave's [[Bhoodan movement]].<ref name="GServe"/>

On 6 May 1995,<ref name=Kanijia2010/> he died at the Gram Swaraj Mandal at Pardi in [[Rajkot district]] at the age of 93.<ref name="GServe"/>

==Writing==
Gandhi's autobiographical publication ''Jivannu Parodh'' (lit. 'Dawn of Life') was awarded the [[Narmad Suvarna Chandrak]].<ref name="GServe"/> He translated the autobiography of [[Rajendra Prasad]] in [[Gujarati language|Gujarati]] as ''Mari Jivankatha'' (1950). ''My childhood with Gandhiji'' (1957), ''Gitaka Samajdharma'', ''Ootabapa no Vadlo'' (1972) – a family tree of Gandhi family and ''Ashram Bhajano no Swadhyaya'' (1978) are his other published works.<ref name=Kanijia2010/> His book ''Bapu na Jugatrambhai'' chronicles the bond between [[MK Gandhi|Gandhi]] and [[Jugatram Dave]].<ref>{{cite web|title=Written work by Prabhudas Gandhi|url=http://www.gandhiserve.org/pg.html|publisher=Gandhi Serve|access-date=7 June 2013}}</ref>

==Awards and honors==
He was awarded the [[Narmad Suvarna Chandrak]] (1948) by the Narmad Sahitya Sabha for his book ''Jivannu Parodh''.<ref>{{cite book |last=Trivedi |first=Dr. Ramesh M. |date=2015 |title=Arvachin Gujarati Sahityano Itihas (History of Modern Gujarati Literature) |location=Ahmedabad |publisher=Adarsh Prakashan |page=415 |isbn=978-93-82593-88-1}}</ref><ref name="GServe"/>

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

== References ==
{{Reflist}}

==External links==
* [https://www.gandhimedia.org/cgi-bin/gm/gm.cgi?direct=Images/Photographs/Personalities/Prabhudas_Gandhi Photographs of Prabhudas Gandhi]
* [https://openlibrary.org/authors/OL1854886A/Prabhudas_Gandhi Works of Prabhudas Gandhi on internet archive]
* {{Gujarati Vishwakosh}}
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