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	He was first made a [[Rai Bahadur]] and later [[Companion of the Order of the Indian Empire]]. Further, he was nominated as a member of [[Bombay Legislative Council]] for years 1890-95.<ref name=r/><ref name=h>{{cite book\|title=Research Journal of the Shreemati Nathibai Damodar Thackersey Women's University\|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=pF45AAAAIAAJ\|access-date=18 June 2017\|year=1988\|publisher=The University\|page=6}}</ref> As a nationalist, he protested strongly protested against this unfair duty on Indian cloth in the Legislative Council of Bombay.<ref name=h/>		He was first made a [[Rai Bahadur]] and later [[Companion of the Order of the Indian Empire]]. Further, he was nominated as a member of [[Bombay Legislative Council]] for years 1890-95.<ref name=r/><ref name=h>{{cite book\|title=Research Journal of the Shreemati Nathibai Damodar Thackersey Women's University\|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=pF45AAAAIAAJ\|access-date=18 June 2017\|year=1988\|publisher=The University\|page=6}}</ref> As a nationalist, he protested strongly protested against this unfair duty on Indian cloth in the Legislative Council of Bombay.<ref name=h/>

	Ranchhodlal Chhotalal died in October of 1898. He had a son named Madhowlal, who died in 1901, couple of years after his death. However, after him and his business and philanthropic works were expanded by his grandson [[Chinubhai Madhowlal Ranchhodlal]], who became the first [[Hindu]] Indian to be made [[baronet]] by the British regime.<ref name=pe>{{cite web\|title=Sir Chinubhai Madhowlal Ranchhodlal\|url=http://thepeerage.com/p55551.htm#i555508\|publisher=The Peerage\|access-date=5 April 2013}}</ref> Sir Chinubhai founded [[Ranchhodlal Chhotalal Technical Institute]] in 1910 in memoir of his grandfather, Ranchhodlal, which provides certificate courses in information technology,~~Mechanical~~,~~Electrical~~,~~Textile Spinning~~,~~Textile Weaving~~ and ~~Textile Processing~~.<ref>{{cite book\|last1=State)\|first1=Bombay (India\|title=A Review of the Administration of the Presidency\|date=1929\|publisher=Government Central Press.\|pages=217\|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=VtpNAAAAMAAJ&q=ranchhodlal+chhotalal+\|access-date=18 June 2017\|language=en}}</ref>		Ranchhodlal Chhotalal died in October 1898. He had a son named Madhowlal, who died in 1901, couple of years after his death. However, after him and his business and philanthropic works were expanded by his grandson [[Chinubhai Madhowlal Ranchhodlal]], who became the first [[Hindu]] Indian to be made [[baronet]] by the British regime.<ref name=pe>{{cite web\|title=Sir Chinubhai Madhowlal Ranchhodlal\|url=http://thepeerage.com/p55551.htm#i555508\|publisher=The Peerage\|access-date=5 April 2013}}</ref> Sir Chinubhai founded [[Ranchhodlal Chhotalal Technical Institute]] in 1910 in memoir of his grandfather, Ranchhodlal, which provides certificate courses in information technology, mechanical, electrical, textile spinning, textile weaving and textile processing.<ref>{{cite book\|last1=State)\|first1=Bombay (India\|title=A Review of the Administration of the Presidency\|date=1929\|publisher=Government Central Press.\|pages=217\|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=VtpNAAAAMAAJ&q=ranchhodlal+chhotalal+\|access-date=18 June 2017\|language=en}}</ref>

	==See also==		==See also==
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{{short description|Indian businessman, the pioneer of textile industry in Ahmedabad, Gujarat}}
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'''Ranchhodlal Chhotalal, [[Rai Bahadur]]''' {{post-nominals|country=GBR|CIE}} <ref name=r>[https://archive.org/stream/memoirofraobahad00edwa/memoirofraobahad00edwa_djvu.txt] "Memoir of Rao Bahadur Ranchhodlal Chhotalal, C.I.E." COMPILED BY S. M. EDWARDES, C.S.I., C.V.O., LATE OF THE INDIAN CIVIL SERVICE (BOMBAY), FROM MATERIALS COLLECTED BY SIR H. EVAN M. JAMES, K.C.I.E., C.S.I., LATE OF THE INDIAN CIVIL SERVICE (BOMBAY), FORMERLY COLLECTOR OP AHMADABAD AND COMMISSIONER, N.D. 1920</ref> (April 29, 1823– October 1898)<ref>{{cite book|last1=Bridge|first1=Gary|last2=Watson|first2=Sophie|title=The New Blackwell Companion to the City|date=2011|publisher=John Wiley & Sons|isbn=9781444395129|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=KFnrQuiLUzIC&q=ranchhodlAL+chhotalal+CIE&pg=PT107|language=en}}</ref> was a pioneer of the [[textile industry]] in [[Ahmedabad]], [[Gujarat]], [[India]].<ref name="Makrand1991">{{cite book | author=Makrand Mehta|title=Indian merchants and entrepreneurs in historical perspective | year = 1991 | publisher=Academic Foundation | isbn=978-81-7188-017-1 | page=171 }}</ref> He is considered as founder of modern Ahmedabad and was also a social activist.<ref name=tt>{{cite news|title=First Rancho: Ranchhodlal Chhotalal (1823-98) - Times of India|url=http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/ahmedabad/-First-Rancho-Ranchhodlal-Chhotalal-1823-98/articleshow/5609219.cms|access-date=16 June 2017|work=The Times of India|date=24 February 2010}}</ref>

He was born April 29, 1823 into a Sathodara [[Nagar Brahmin]] family to Chhotalal Udeshankar and Labhbai. He started his career as a service man in customs department.<ref name=r/><ref name=tr>{{cite book|author1=Dwijendra Tripathi|author2=Jyoti Jumani|title=The Concise Oxford History of Indian Business|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Q9LsAAAAMAAJ|access-date=18 June 2017|year=2007|publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=978-0-19-568429-2|page=53}}</ref> In 1853, he was discharged from job accused of taking a bribe. He took it as a challenge and turned a businessman and was able to raise initial funds to start a mill.<ref name=tr/><ref name=d>{{cite book|author=Harish Damodaran|title=India's new capitalists: caste, business, and industry in a modern nation|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=iszsAAAAMAAJ|access-date=18 June 2017|year=2008|publisher=Permanent Black in association with The New India Foundation|isbn=978-81-7824-218-7|page=51}}</ref><ref name=n>{{cite book|author=E. Wayne Nafziger|title=Essays in Entrepreneurship, Equity and Economic Development|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=WOzrAAAAMAAJ|access-date=18 June 2017|year=1986|publisher=Jai Press|isbn=978-0-89232-711-9|page=99}}</ref> Thus, in 1861, he founded the first [[textile mill]] at Ahemdabad with initial capital of one [[lakh]], and became the second Indian to start a textile mill in India.<ref>{{cite book|last1=(India)|first1=Gujarat|title=Gujarat State Gazetteers: Ahmadabad District Gazetteer|date=1984|publisher=Directorate of Government Print., Stationery and Publications, Gujarat State|pages=325|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=byIbAAAAIAAJ&q=ranchhodlal+chhotalal+bharuch|access-date=19 June 2017|language=en}}</ref><ref name=n/><ref name=d/><ref>{{cite book|title=The Economic Weekly|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ugEjAQAAMAAJ|access-date=18 June 2017|date=January 1965|publisher=Economic Weekly|page=483}}</ref> The mill was named [[Ahmedabad Spinning and Weaving Company Limited]] which was the first cotton mill of Ahmedabad, a city which later came to known as ''Manchester of India''. He started his second textile mill in 1877.<ref name=aa>{{cite web|title=Ahmedabad Textile Mill's Association|url=http://www.atmaahd.com/chrnology.htm|website=www.atmaahd.com|access-date=18 June 2017}}</ref>

He was nominated the first Indian person, as the president of the [[Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation|Ahmedabad Municipality]] in 1885. He carried out the underground drainage and water supply work, one of the pioneering works of underground drainage and water supply in British India.<ref>[http://www.welcometoahmedabad.com/8/municipal-corporation.html Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation]</ref> He served as president from 1885-1895, during which time he stood against the conservative society and was able to implement and complete common water supply line to all castes.<ref name="Congress1997">{{cite book|author=Indian History Congress|title=Proceedings of the Indian History Congress|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ZfltAAAAMAAJ|access-date=18 June 2017|year=1997|publisher=Indian History Congress.|page=751}}</ref><ref name="Ahmedabad1940"/> He took help of his poet friend [[Dalpatram]] to convince people for common water supply lines to be implemented by city's municipal corporation.<ref name="Ahmedabad1940">{{cite book|author=Rotary Club of Ahmedabad|title=Ahmedabad, Being a Compilation of Articles Contributed by Rotarians and Others on Various Subjects Prominently Bringing Out Many Interesting Details Pertaining to and Connected with the City|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=hcIBAAAAMAAJ|access-date=18 June 2017|year=1940|publisher=Rotary Club of Ahmedabad|page=27}}</ref><ref name=tt/>

He founded one of earliest high school of Ahmedabad, the [[RC High School]] in 1846, which is also named after him.<ref>{{cite news|title=Entrance test for class IV in 1865! - Times of India|url=http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/ahmedabad/Entrance-test-for-class-IV-in-1865/articleshow/10837165.cms|access-date=16 June 2017|work=The Times of India|date=23 November 2011}}</ref> Ranchhodlal started the first women's hospital in Ahmedabad in 1865, which is known as [[Victoria Jubilee Hospital]].<ref>[http://www.victoriajubileetrust.org/trust.html Victoria Jubilee Hospital Trust]</ref> In 1879 Ranchhodlal Chhotalal was responsible for founding and restarting of [[Gujarat College]], which was put under management of the Gujarat College Committee, headed by him.<ref>''Women in India's freedom struggle by Nawaz B. Mody'', Allied Publishers, 2000, pp 128</ref><ref>Mridula Sarabhai: rebel with a cause by Aparna Basue 1965 - Page 14</ref><ref>Gandhinagar: building national identity in postcolonial India By Ravi Kalia page 52</ref> He further donated money to [[Gujarat Vernacular Society]] to start a girls' high school now named [[RB Ranchhodlal Chhotalal Girls High School]] in 1892.<ref>Census of India, 1961 - Volume 5, Issue 1 - Page 187</ref> Further, an endowment fund named ''Ranchhodlal Chhotalal C I E Research Award Endowment'' was also started by him to help bright but poor students complete their education.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Rutnagur|first1=Sorabji M.|title=The Indian Textile Journal|date=1987|publisher=Business Press.|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=kspOAAAAYAAJ&q=ranchhodlAL+chhotalal+CIE|access-date=18 June 2017|language=en}}</ref>

As a visionary, in year 1894 he joined hands with other entrepreneurs of town - Mansukhbhai Bahgubhai, Shambhuprasad Becharbhai Lashkare, [[Lalbhai Dalpatbhai]], Motilal Amratlal, Sarabhai Maganbhai, and Girdharlal Amritlal Desai to form Gujarat Navigation Company, with a motive to link [[Sabarmati]] with [[Dholera]] in an attempt to link Ahmedabad with sea. However, the project was not approved by then British government.<ref name=tt/><ref name="Gillion1968">{{cite book|author=Kenneth L. Gillion|title=Ahmedabad; a study in Indian urban history|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=d7YDAAAAMAAJ|access-date=18 June 2017|year=1968|publisher=University of California Press|page=00|isbn=9780520004733}}</ref><ref name=r/>
He was first made a [[Rai Bahadur]] and later [[Companion of the Order of the Indian Empire]]. Further, he was nominated as a member of [[Bombay Legislative Council]] for years 1890-95.<ref name=r/><ref name=h>{{cite book|title=Research Journal of the Shreemati Nathibai Damodar Thackersey Women's University|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=pF45AAAAIAAJ|access-date=18 June 2017|year=1988|publisher=The University|page=6}}</ref> As a nationalist, he protested strongly protested against this unfair duty on Indian cloth in the Legislative Council of Bombay.<ref name=h/>

Ranchhodlal Chhotalal died in October of 1898. He had a son named Madhowlal, who died in 1901, couple of years after his death. However, after him and his business and philanthropic works were expanded by his grandson [[Chinubhai Madhowlal Ranchhodlal]], who became the first [[Hindu]] Indian to be made [[baronet]] by the British regime.<ref name=pe>{{cite web|title=Sir Chinubhai Madhowlal Ranchhodlal|url=http://thepeerage.com/p55551.htm#i555508|publisher=The Peerage|access-date=5 April 2013}}</ref> Sir Chinubhai founded [[Ranchhodlal Chhotalal Technical Institute]] in 1910 in memoir of his grandfather, Ranchhodlal, which provides certificate courses in information technology,Mechanical,Electrical,Textile Spinning,Textile Weaving and Textile Processing.<ref>{{cite book|last1=State)|first1=Bombay (India|title=A Review of the Administration of the Presidency|date=1929|publisher=Government Central Press.|pages=217|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=VtpNAAAAMAAJ&q=ranchhodlal+chhotalal+|access-date=18 June 2017|language=en}}</ref>

==See also==
*[[Cowaszee Nanabhoy Davar]]
*[[Runchorelal Baronets|Ranchhodlal Baronets]]
*[[Ranchhodlal Chhotalal Technical Institute]]

== References ==
{{reflist}}

==External links==
* [http://gujaratonline.com/gen/ranchota.htm Biography on gujaratonline.com]

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