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'''Bachubhai Popatbhai Ravat''' was a Gujarati editor and art critic from India.

== Life ==
Bachubhai Ravat was born on 27 February 1898 in [[Ahmedabad]]. He completed his primary and secondary education from [[Gondal, India|Gondal]]. He also [[matriculation|matriculated]] from there in 1914. He taught at Sangramji High School in Gondal from 1915 to 1919. He worked at Sastu Sahityavardhak Karyalaya from 1920 to 1921. He worked in editing and publishing department of Navjeevan Prakashan Mandir in 1922-23. He co-edited ''[[Kumar (magazine)|Kumar]]'' magazine with [[Ravishankar Raval]] from 1924 to 1942. He founded weekly literary workshop, [[Budh Sabha]], in 1930 which still continues. He later served as an editor of ''Kumar'' from 1943 to 1980. He served on Bombay State Script Reform Committee in 1953. He was appointed as a member of Legislative Assembly of [[Bombay State]] in 1954 where he served for six years. He was the president of the first Gujarati Printer's Conference. He was also the president of journalism department of 23rd annual conference of [[Gujarati Sahitya Parishad]] held in [[Surat]] in 1965. He died on 12 July 1980.<ref name="ng">{{Cite web|url=http://navgujaratsamay.indiatimes.com/editorial/sampadkiya/navgujarat-samays-editorial-on-gujarati-literature-bachubhai-ravat/articleshow/31059469.cms|title=ગુજરાતી સાહિત્ય-સંસ્કૃતિના સંવર્ધક બચુભાઇ રાવત|date=26 February 2014|access-date=3 February 2016|language=gu|publisher=[[NavGujarat Samay]]|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170202190338/http://navgujaratsamay.indiatimes.com/editorial/sampadkiya/navgujarat-samays-editorial-on-gujarati-literature-bachubhai-ravat/articleshow/31059469.cms|archive-date=2 February 2017|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref name="GSP">{{cite web | title=બચુભાઈ રાવત (Bachubahi Ravat)| website=[[Gujarati Sahitya Parishad]] | url=http://gujaratisahityaparishad.com/prakashan/sarjako/savishesh/Savishesh-Bachubhai-Ravat.html | language=gu | accessdate=2 February 2017}}</ref><ref name="Das2000">{{cite book|author=Sisir Kumar Das|title=History of Indian Literature|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=sHklK65TKQ0C&pg=PA692|year=2000|publisher=Sahitya Akademi|isbn=978-81-7201-006-5|page=692}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|title=The Indian P.E.N.|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=e7tPAQAAIAAJ|volume=40-41|year=1974}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|title=The Indian Publisher and Bookseller|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=bvYqAAAAMAAJ|year=1973|publisher=Sadanand G. Bhatkal|page=166}}</ref>

== Works ==
His work of literary editing and journalism, especially in ''Kumar'', contributed heavily in literary development in Gandhi era of Gujarati literature.<ref name="Das1991">{{cite book|author=Sisir Kumar Das|title=History of Indian Literature: 1911-1956, struggle for freedom : triumph and tragedy|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=sqBjpV9OzcsC&pg=PA588|year=1991|publisher=Sahitya Akademi|isbn=978-81-7201-798-9|page=588}}</ref> He was an insistent of metrical poems and used to say that "there could be no poem without metre".<ref name=JSTOR>{{cite journal|author1=Kirit Doodhat|author2=Labhshankar Thaker|title=Labhshankar Thaker in Conversation with Kirit Dhoodhat, Ramesh Dave, Bipin Patel and Anil Vyas|journal=[[Indian Literature]]|date=September–October 2000|publisher=[[Sahitya Akademi]]|location=New Delhi|jstor=23343442}}</ref> ''Gujarati Granthasth Chitrakala'' is collection of essays on art and art criticism. He also wrote ''Gujarati Lipina Nava Parodhnu Nirman'' on Gujarati script. ''Tunki Vartao'' (1921) is collection of short stories translated from Hindi.<ref name="GSP"/>

== Awards ==
He was awarded [[Ranjitram Suvarna Chandrak]] for his contribution in field of [[Gujarati journalism|journalism]] in 1948. In 1975, he was awarded [[Padma Shri]], the fourth highest civilian award of India.<ref name="GSP"/><ref name="award70-79">{{cite web|title=Padma Awards Directory (1954–2014)|url=http://www.mha.nic.in/sites/upload_files/mha/files/YearWiseListOfRecipientsBharatRatnaPadmaAwards-1954-2014.pdf|publisher=Ministry of Home Affairs (India)|date=21 May 2014|accessdate=22 March 2016|format=PDF|pp=37–72|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161115022326/http://mha.nic.in/sites/upload_files/mha/files/YearWiseListOfRecipientsBharatRatnaPadmaAwards-1954-2014.pdf|archive-date=2016-11-15|url-status=dead|df=}}</ref>

==See also==

* [[List of Gujarati-language writers]]

== References ==
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[[Category:Writers from Ahmedabad]]
[[Category:Indian editors]]
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[[Category:Journalists from Gujarat]]
[[Category:Indian art critics]]
[[Category:Recipients of the Ranjitram Suvarna Chandrak]]

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