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{{Other uses|Scrapbook (disambiguation)}}
{{short description|diary written by Govardhanram Tripathi}}
{{Infobox book
| name = Scrap Book
| image = Scrap Book Govardhanram Tripathi.jpeg
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| image_size = 300px
| caption = Volumes of ''Scrap Book'' edited by Kantilal Pandya, Sanmukhlal Pandya and [[Ramprasad Bakshi]]
| author = [[Govardhanram Tripathi]]
| orig_lang_code = gu
| country = India
| language = English
| subject =
| publisher = N. M Tripathi Pvt. Ltd., [[Bombay]]
| pub_date = 1957–1959
| oclc = 5413595
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| congress =
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'''''Scrap Book''''', formally published as '''''Govardhanrám Madhavrám Tripáthi's Scrap Book''''', is a diary written by Indian writer [[Govardhanram Tripathi]] from 1885 to 1906. It is a repository of the author's wide-ranging thoughts, including on moral and spiritual conflicts. It provides many details about Govardhanram's life and family.<ref name="JhaveriAkademi1978">{{cite book|last=Jhaveri|first=Mansukhlal Maganlal|authorlink=Mansukhlal Jhaveri|title=History of Gujarati Literature|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=e_YJAQAAIAAJ|year=1978|publisher=Sahitya Akademi|location=New Delhi|page=101|oclc=468416441}}</ref>

==Background==
[[File:Govardhanram Tripathi 2013-11-14 23-12.JPG|thumb|left|Govardhanram Tripathi|upright=0.7]]
Govardhanram obtained his [[LLB]] degree in 1883 after repeated failures, and moved to [[Mumbai]] in 1884 to practice as a [[wikt:pleader|pleader]] at high court. In January 1885, when he was 30, he started writing ''Scrap Book''. He noted in it important points and quotations from books that he read.<ref name="Mehrotra2006">{{cite book|last=Chandra|first=Sudhir|chapter=Two Faces of Prose: Behramji Malabari and Govardhanram Tripathi|editor-last=Mehrotra|editor-first=Arvind Krishna|editor-link=Arvind Krishna Mehrotra|title=An illustrated history of Indian literature in English|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=HT5h9OV8EV8C&pg=PA88printsec%3Dfrontcover|year=2006|publisher=Permanent Black|location=Delhi|isbn=978-81-7824-151-7|page=88}}</ref><ref name="Thaker1999">{{cite book|last=Thaker|first=Dhirubhai|authorlink=Dhirubhai Thaker|title=Glimpses of Gujarati Literature|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=H3NjAAAAMAAJ|year=1999|publisher=[[Gujarat Sahitya Akademi]]|location=Gandhinagar|isbn=81-7227-061-5|pages=12–13}}</ref><ref name="Joshi1979">{{cite book|last=Joshi|first=Ramanlal|authorlink=Ramanlal Joshi|title=Govardhanram|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=SOEQAAAAMAAJ|year=1979|series=Makers of Indian Literature|publisher=Sahitya Akademi|location=New Delhi|pages=41–42|oclc=6950984}}</ref> He wrote in the diary till 3 November 1906, a few months before his death.<ref name="Joshi1979"/> It is believed that Govardhanram maintained a personal diary also, but this has not been found.<ref name="Thaker1999" />

Originally spanning seven notebooks, it was edited by [[Kantilal Pandya]], Sanmukhlal Pandya, and [[Ramprasad Bakshi]] and published in three volumes from 1957 to 1959. Bakshi published an abridged version in [[Gujarati language|Gujarati]] titled ''Govardhanram Ni Manannondh''.<ref name="Joshi1979"/>

==Contents==
The subjects of the ''Scrap Book'' can be divided in three sections: (1) Govardhanram's speculations and comments on Hindu religio-philosophical texts and concepts; (2) his views on contemporary socio-political issues, issues, institutions and leaders; and (3) problems, resentments and pain in his personal life as the head of Hindu joint family.<ref name="Joshi 2003">{{cite book|last=Joshi|first=Yashodhan|editor1-first=Ranjana|editor1-last=Harish|editor2-first=V. Bharathi|editor2-last=Harishankar|title=Shakti: Multidisciplinary Perspectives on Women's Empowerment in India|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ak8qAAAAYAAJ|year=2003|location=New Delhi|publisher=Rawat Publications|isbn=978-81-7033-793-5|page=273|chapter=Representation of Women in Govardhanram's Scrapbooks}}</ref>

The notes in the ''Scrap Book'' include Govardhanram's personal comments on a wide range of subjects including his personal problems, his nature, emotions, ideals, the problem of his retiring from the active life, Sannyas and Yoga, family life and its problems, perception on the soul, God, life after death, virtue, immorality, bliss, astrology, his own writings, and contemporary events.<ref name="Joshi1979"/>

==Reception==
In [[Tridip Suhrud]]'s assessment, ''Scrap Book'' was outstanding among Indian self-focused compositions that elaborate on the themes and the quest of the medieval [[Gujarati literature#Medieval literature|Bhakti tradition]], giving, perhaps for the first time, a vernacular version of the idea that the [[Ātman (Hinduism)|self]] is an experimental locus, where what is recorded, the outer and inner worlds, while fusing in the self can simultaneously be disentangled to create separate dimensions. The most exemplary modern expression of the paradox was, he added, [[Mahatma Gandhi]]'s [[The Story of My Experiments with Truth|autobiography]].<ref name="Jolly2013">{{cite book|last=Suhrud|first=Tridip|authorlink=Tridip Suhrud|editor-last=Jolly|editor-first=Margaretta|title=Encyclopedia of Life Writing: Autobiographical and Biographical Forms|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=pedJAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA463|volume=I|year=2013|publisher=Routledge|location=London|isbn=978-1-136-78744-7|page=463|chapter=Indian Subcontinent: Auto/biography 1947}}</ref>

Scholars including [[Uttamlal Trivedi]] and [[Balwantray Thakore]] have extensively used these observations while writing on Govardhanram.<ref name="Joshi1979"/>

==References==
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==External links==
* [https://www.govardhanramtripathi.com/ebooks/scrapbook2.pdf Scrap Book]; Volume I, II, II & IV (part i)
* [https://www.govardhanramtripathi.com/ebooks/scrapbook3.pdf Scrap Book]; Volume IV (part ii), V & VI
* [https://www.govardhanramtripathi.com/ebooks/scrapbook3.pdf Scrap Book]; Volume VII
* [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.305127 ''Govardhanram Ni Manannondh''] (abridged version in Gujarati)

[[Category:Books published posthumously]]
[[Category:Diaries]]
[[Category:Indian non-fiction books]]

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