Dhirubhai Thaker
Indian writer, editor of Gujarati Vishwakosh / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Dhirubhai Premshankar Thaker (27 June 1918 – 22 January 2014) was an Indian Gujarati writer, who was best known for creating the Gujarati Vishwakosh, a 25-volume encyclopedia of the Gujarati language.[1]
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Born | (1918-06-27)27 June 1918 Kodinar, Gujarat, India |
Died | 22 January 2014(2014-01-22) (aged 95) Ahmedabad, Gujarat |
Occupation | Author |
Language | Gujarati |
Nationality | Indian |
Alma mater | Elphinstone College (1936–1939; BA) |
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Thesis | 'Manilal Nabhubhai: Sahitya Sadhana' (1956) |
Doctoral advisor | Ramnarayan V. Pathak |
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