Nadiad is a city in the state of Gujarat,India and the administrative centre of the Kheda district. The city is managed by the Nadiad Municipality. It is known for the Santram Mandir,the Mai Mandir,the historic Swaminarayan temple built in 1824,and the Anand and Hari Om Ashram. Nadiad is also where Shrimad Rajchandra composed Shri Atmasiddhi Shatra,a 142 verse spiritual treatise in 1895. Nadiad is located 90 kilometres (56 mi) away from Gandhinagar,the capital of Gujarat. It has a major railway junction and is a main station on the Ahmedabad-Mumbai route. It is the birthplace of Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel,the first Deputy Prime Minister of India. Nadiad Municipality was Founded in 1866.
Jainism has had a notable following in Gujarat. According to the 2011 Census of India,around 0.959% of the population of Gujarat is Jain. There are several old Jain temples that draw pilgrims from Jains around the world in places such as Palitana,Taranga,Sankheshwar,Idar.
Surendranagar Dudhrej is a municipality in Surendranagar district in the Indian state of Gujarat. Dudhrej municipality is directly connected with Wadhwan city and Wadhwan municipality.
Talaja is a town and a municipality in Bhavnagar district in the Indian state of Gujarat.
Gunvant Shah is an essayist,educationist,columnist and philosophy writer and critic from Gujarat,India. He taught at various universities and participated in various education oriented events and organisations. His large number of essays,including philosophical essays,are published as books. He received Ranjitram Suvarna Chandrak in 1997 and Padma Shri,the fourth highest civilian award of India,in 2015. In 2019,he was awarded a D.Lit. by Gujarat University.
Govardhanram Madhavram Tripathi was an Indian Gujarati language novelist of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. He is known for his four volume novel,Saraswatichandra,acclaimed as one of the masterpieces of Gujarati literature. The novel represents the life of Gujarat during the early part of 19th-century.
Anandiben Mafatbhai Patel is an Indian politician serving as the 20th and current Governor of Uttar Pradesh. She also served as 17th Governor of Madhya Pradesh and Governor of Chhattisgarh. She has served as the first female Chief Minister of Gujarat. She is a member of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) since 1987. She was the Cabinet Minister for Education from 2002 to 2007.
Chakradhara,also known as Sarvadnya Shri Chakradhar Swami or Kunwar Haripaladeva was an Indian saint and philosopher,who is considered as an avatara of Krishna by his disciples and one of the most important exponents of the Dvaita tradition within Hinduism. He is the founder of Mahanubhava Sampradaya of Krishnaism. Shri Chakradhar Swami advocated worship of Lord Krishna and preached a distinct philosophy based on Bhakti. He did not recognize caste distinctions,and like Buddha had only two others viz the householder and recluses. Some sources claim that Chakrapani Prabhu and Govinda Prabhu as the originators of Mahanubhava doctrine and Chakradhara as the first apostle who systematized Mahanubhava as a school of Bhakti philosophy. Chakradhara's birth anniversary is observed on the Tithi of Bhadrapada Shukla Dwitiya.
Kanubhai Hasmukhbhai Tailor is an Indian social worker who is physically disabled. He is from Gujarat and the founder of the non governmental organization,Disable Welfare Trust of India,working towards the upliftment of physically disabled people. The Government of India honored Tailor in 2011,with the fourth highest civilian award of Padma Shri.
Pravin Darji is Gujarati essayist,poet,critic and editor from India. Spand (1976),Charvana (1976),Dayarama (1978) and Pratyagra (1978) are some of his known works. He was awarded Padma Shri in 2011.
Bhikhudan Govindbhai Gadhvi is an Indian folk singer and songwriter,known as a proponent of Dayro,a narrative singing tradition of Gujarat. He is a recipient of the Gujarat Gaurav Award of the Government of Gujarat and the Sangeet Natak Akademi Award. The Government of India awarded him the fourth highest civilian honour of the Padma Shri,in 2016,for his contributions to folk music.
Dahyabhai Shastri is an Indian scholar of Sanskrit and the founder of Brahmarshi Sanskrit Mahavidyalaya,Nadiad. He is also a former president of the Gujarat state unit of the Vishwa Hindu Parishad. Born in Vasai Dabhla,a small village in Mehsana district of Gujarat and did his studies in Sanskrit in Ahmedabad and Varanasi,Shastri chairs the Veda Centre,Pardi. He is known for contributions in interpreting Sanskrit grammar and literature and is a recipient of Gujarat State Award. The Government of India awarded him the fourth highest civilian honour of the Padma Shri,in 2016,for his contributions to Literature and education.
The Sahityaratna,is a literary honour in Gujarat,India,conferred by Gujarat Sahitya Akademi and Government of Gujarat to the Gujarati authors for their significant contribution in Gujarati literature. Established in 2016,the award comprises a plaque,shawl and a cash prize of Rs. 1,51,000.
Advocate Rajendra Suryaprasad Trivedi,also known as Rajubhai Vakil,is the Cabinet Minister of Gujarat and the former Speaker of Gujarat Legislative Assembly and was the Minister of Gujarat for Sports,Youth and Cultural activities department and Pilgrimage Development in Vijay Rupani Ministry.
Shri Govind Guru University is a state university located at Godhra,Gujarat,India. It was established in 2015 by the Shri Govind Guru University Act,2015 of the Government of Gujarat and approved by the University Grants Commission (UGC) in 2016. The university has jurisdiction over the districts of Panchmahal,Mahisagar,Dahod,Chhota Udaipur and Vadodara in eastern Gujarat with 122 affiliated colleges. It is named after social and religious reformer Govind Guru.
Shri Amirgadh railway station is a railway station in Banaskantha district,Gujarat,India on the Western line of the North Western railway network. Shri Amirgadh railway station is 35 km from Palanpur Junction. Passenger and DEMU trains halt here.
Abdul Gafur Khatri is a Rogan artist from Nirona village in Kutch district,Gujarat,India.
Gurdip Singh is a professor from Gwalior,India. He is a senior professor of Ayurveda and the Director of Post Graduate Studies at the SDM College of Ayurveda and Hospital in Hassan,Karnataka. He is considered an authority on the Ayurveda work Charaka Samhita. Singh was a dean of Institute for Post Graduate Teaching and Research in Ayurveda at Gujarat Ayurved University at Jamnagar,Gujarat.
Dadudan Pratapdan Gadhvi,also known as Kavi Dad,was a Gujarati poet and folk singer from Gujarat,India. He was awarded the Padma Shri in 2021.
Lata Desai is a medical doctor from the Indian State of Gujarat who is 1980 along with her husband Dr. Anil Desai and a few friends founded the Society for Education Welfare and Action - Rural,a voluntary organization devoted to health and development activities in the tribal area of South Gujarat.
