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{{Infobox writer
| name = Anandshankar Dhruv
| image = Anandshankar Dhruv.jpg
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| caption = Anandshankar Dhruv
| birth_date = {{birth date|1869|2|25|df=y}}
| birth_place = [[Ahmedabad]], [[Gujarat]], India
| death_date = {{death date and age|1942|4|7|1869|2|25|df=y}}
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| occupation = Author, editor
| language = [[Gujarati language|Gujarati]]
| period =
| nationality = Indian
| notable_works = ''[[Apno Dharma]]'' (1916)
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'''Anandshankar Bapubhai Dhruv''' (25 February 1869 – 7 April 1942) was a [[Gujarati people|Gujarati]] scholar, writer, educationist and editor from [[Gujarat]], India. His name is revered as '[[Acharya]]' (a learned person) in Gujarat, and hence generally he is known as Acharya Anandshankar Dhruv.<ref name="Chatterjee1947">{{cite book|editor-first=Kedar Nath|editor-last=Chatterji|title=The Modern Review|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=VB0lAQAAIAAJ&pg=PA68|year=1947|publisher=Prabasi Press Private Limited|location=Calcutta|page=68}}</ref>

==Life==
[[File:Anandshankar Dhruv bust.jpg|thumb|Bust of Anandshankar Dhruv at [[Gujarat University]]]]

Dhruv was born in [[Ahmedabad]] on 25 February 1869. His father was an officer of [[Kathiawar Agency]] and worked as an agent of [[Baroda State]] after retirement. He studied in English medium schools and learned Sanskrit at early age. While studying Master of Arts, he started teaching Sanskrit at [[Gujarat College]] in 1893. Later he taught at [[Elphinstone College]] for some years. He was appointed a Vice Chancellor of [[Banaras Hindu University]] in 1920. He performed the opening ceremony of The Modern School at Sicka Nagar, Bombay in 1936 established by Ramanbhai and Pushpaben Vakil.<ref name="MS1936">{{cite web | title=Founder | website=The Modern School | date=10 June 1936 | url=http://www.themodernschool.com/School/founder.php | access-date=21 February 2017}}</ref> He was also a chairman of Inter University Board. He died on 7 April 1942.<ref name="b">{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=06ERAQAAMAAJ|title=Encyclopaedia of Indian Literature: Devraj to Jyoti|last1=Datta|first1=Amaresh|last2=Akademi|first2=Sahitya|date=1988-12-01|publisher=Sahitya Akademi|isbn=9780836422832|pages=1004–1005|language=en}}</ref>

==Works==
His pen-names were Mumukshu and ''Hind-hitchintak''.<ref name="b"/><ref name=a>{{Cite web |url=http://www.indianage.com/eventdate.php/Birth/25-February-1869 |title=Anand Shankar Bapubhai Dhruv, Sanskrit Pandit and editor of monthly magazine 'Vasant' |access-date=28 March 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140407102549/http://www.indianage.com/eventdate.php/Birth/25-February-1869 |archive-date=7 April 2014 |url-status=dead }}</ref> He headed several literary and linguistic organizations including [[Gujarati Sahitya Parishad]] and Philosophical Congress.<ref name=a/><ref name=c/>

Dhruv wrote many books of Indian philosophy and Sanskrit literature as well as western philosophy and culture. Further, he has written several noted essays on religion and philosophy discussing the true essence of Hindu faith.<ref name=c>{{cite web|url=http://gujaratisahityaparishad.com/prakashan/sarjako/savishesh/Savishesh-Anandshankar-Dhruv.html|title=Anandshankar-Dhruv|publisher=gujaratisahityaparishad.com}}</ref>

He translated ''[[Sri Bhasya]]'', a philosophic work by [[Ramanuja]], and wrote ''Hindu Dharma Ni Balpothi'' (a Primer of Hindu Religion) and ''Nitishikshan''. Dhruv edited for some time ''[[Sudarshan (magazine)|Sudarshan]]'', a magazine founded by [[Manilal Dwivedi]], after Manila's death in 1898. And started his own monthly ''[[Vasant (magazine)|Vasant]]'' in 1902; which ran for some 36 years.<ref name="Jhaveri1978">{{cite book|last=Jhaveri|first=Mansukhlal Maganlal|author-link=Mansukhlal Jhaveri|title=History of Gujarati Literature|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=DA0RAAAAMAAJ|year=1978|publisher=Sahitya Akademi|location=New Delhi|page=117–118|oclc=639128528}}</ref>

Dhruv's articles published in ''Vasant'' were later edited and collected by [[Ramnarayan Vishwanath Pathak]] and [[Umashankar Joshi]], in five volumes. Of these, ''[[Apano Dharma]]'' (Our Religion) comprises his articles on religion and philosophy; ''Kavya Tattva Vichar'' is a collection of his articles on the essentials of poetry; ''Sahitya Vichar'' contains articles on applied criticism and education; ''Digdarshan'' is a collection of his writings on historical subjects; and ''Vichar Madhuri'' includes articles on miscellaneous subjects.<ref name="Jhaveri1978"/>

''Anandshankar Dhruva : Lekhasanchay'', a collection of selected writings by Dhruv, compiled and edited by [[Dhiru Parikh]], was published in 2002 by [[Sahitya Akademi]], [[New Delhi]].<ref name="Rao2004">{{cite book|editor-last=Rao|editor-first=D. S.|title=Five Decades: The National Academy of Letters, India : a Short History of Sahitya Akademi|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8JDsBBDoMccC&pg=PA53|year=2004|publisher=Sahitya Akademi|location=New Delhi|isbn=978-81-260-2060-7|page=53}}</ref>

==See also==
* [[List of Gujarati-language writers]]

==References==
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