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<div>[[File:Makarand Mehta.jpg|thumb|Makarand Mehta; in January 2020]]<br />
'''Makrand Mehta''' (born 25 May 1931) is a social and business historian from [[Gujarat]], India.<br />
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==Biography==<br />
Makrand Mehta was born on 25 May 1931 at [[Ahmedabad]] in a [[Nagar Brahmin]] family.<ref name="Shukla2013">{{cite book |last=Shukla |first=Jaykumar R. |title=Arvācīna Itihāsakāro ane Temanuṃ Itihāsalekhana |script-title=gu:અર્વાચિન ઇતિહાસકારો અને તેમનુ ઇતિહાસલેખન |trans-title=Modern Historians and Their History Writings |year=2013 |publisher=Gurjar Grantharatna Karyalay |location=Ahmedabad |pages=151–155 |isbn=9788184809558 |language=gu}}</ref><br />
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He studied at the [[Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda]], [[University of Pennsylvania]] and [[Gujarat University]].<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/ahmedabad/Historian-Makrand-Mehta-felicitated/articleshow/9104950.cms|title=Historian Makrand Mehta felicitated|date=2011-07-05|website=The Times of India|url-status=live|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=2019-10-18}}</ref><br />
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He headed the Department of History at the School of Sciences, Gujarat University before retirement. He is associated with several organisations including Gujarat Itihas Parishad, Gujarat Vidyasabha and Darshak Itihas Nidhi.<ref name=":0" /><br />
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==Works==<br />
Mehta has written more than 20 books in English and Gujarati. He has also published several papers on social and economic history.<ref name=":0" /><br />
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His selected works are:<ref name=":0" /><br />
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* ''The Ahmedabad Cotton Textile Industry : Genesis and Growth''<br />
* ''Urbanization in Western India : A Historical Perspective''<br />
* ''Business Houses in Western India : A Study in Entrepreneurial Response 1850-1956'' (co-author)<br />
* ''Regional Roots of Indian Nationalism''<br />
* ''Indian Merchants and Entrepreneurs in Historical Perspective: with Special Reference to Shroffs of Gujarat, 17th to 19th Centuries''<br />
* ''Merchants and ports of Gujarat''<br />
* ''History of International Trade and Customs Duties in Gujarat''<br />
* ''Gujarat-no Rajwadi Warso'' (Gujarati)<br />
* ''Gujarat Ane Dariyo'' (Gujarati)<br />
* ''Kasturbhai Lalbhai'' (Gujarati)<br />
* ''Gujaratna Ghadvaiya: Swavikas ni Prayogshala'' (Gujarati)<br />
* ''Itihas, Samaj ane Sahityama Gujarat'' (Gujarati)<br />
* ''Hindu Varnavyavastha, Samaj Parivartan Ane Gujaratna Dalito'' (Gujarati)<br />
* ''Sanstha Sthapan Ane Samaj Parivartan'' (Gujarati)<br />
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== Reception ==<br />
Mehta published a research paper titled ''Sectarian literature and Social Consciousness - A study of the Swaminarayan sect 1800-1840'' in December 1986 in ''Arhat''. It triggered a controversy among the followers of [[Swaminarayan Sampraday]]. In it, Mehta has contended that [[Sahajanand]], who is believed to be an incarnation of Krishna by his followers, was only a social reformer who conspired with his followers to project himself as a god. He had also argued that the sect had done nothing for poor. In 1988, the followers of the sect received a permission from the government of Gujarat to lodge a case against him under section 295 A (Deliberate and malicious acts, intended to outrage religious feelings or any class by insulting its religion or religious beliefs) of [[Indian Penal Code]].<ref name=":1">{{Cite web|url=https://www.indiatoday.in/magazine/education/story/19880531-research-paper-on-swaminarayan-sect-triggers-off-controversy-797283-1988-05-31|title=Research paper on Swaminarayan Sect triggers off controversy|last=Mahurkar|first=Uday|date=1988-05-31|website=India Today|url-status=live|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=2019-10-21}}</ref><br />
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==Personal life==<br />
He has married a historian Shirin Mehta.<ref name=":0" /><br />
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==See also==<br />
* [[List of Gujarati-language writers]]<br />
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==References==<br />
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==External links==<br />
* {{Gbooks-author|Makrand Mehta}}<br />
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[[Category:Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda alumni]]<br />
[[Category:University of Pennsylvania alumni]]<br />
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