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{{Short description|Literary institution in Ahmedabad, India}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=January 2025}}
{{Use Indian English|date=May 2018}}
'''Gujarat Sahitya Sabha''', originally called the '''Social and Literary Association''' is a literary institution for the promotion of [[Gujarati literature]] located in the city of [[Ahmedabad]], India. It was founded by [[Ranjitram Vavabhai Mehta]] in 1898. Its name was later changed in 1905.<ref name="AGSI"/><ref>{{Cite web |url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/ahmedabad/gujarat-divas-idea-of-gujarat-first-emerged-in-1928/articleshow/58450364.cms |title=first suggested the concept of Mahagujarat in a meeting of the Gujarat Sahitya Sabha, held in Karachi in 1937. |website=The Times of India |access-date=2018-03-20}}</ref><ref name=Choudhuri2016>{{cite book|editor-last=Choudhuri |editor-first=Indra Nath |title=Encyclopaedia of Indian Literature: I-L |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=z4ruAQAACAAJ |date=2016 |publisher=[[Sahitya Akademi]] |location=New Delhi |pages=2366 |isbn=978-81-260-4758-1}}</ref>

The main aim of the association is to celebrate the birth anniversaries of great Gujarati littérateurs, publishing and releasing books and also preserving manuscripts. The Gujarat Sahitya Sabha also gives an award called the [[Ranjitram Suvarna Chandrak]] since 1928<ref name="AGSI">{{cite book|title=અર્વાચીન ગુજરાતી સાહિત્યનો ઈતિહાસ – આધુનિક અને અનુઆધુનિક યુગ|last=Brahmabhatt|first=Prasad|publisher=Parshwa Publication|year=2010|isbn=978-93-5108-247-7|location=Ahmedabad|pages=394, 403|language=gu|trans-title=History of Modern Gujarati Literature – Modern and Postmodern Era}}</ref> and is considered as the highest literary honour of the state of [[Gujarat]].<ref name=Choudhuri2016/><ref name="Jhaveri1978">{{cite book |last=Jhaveri |first=Mansukhlal |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=234 |oclc=825734488}}</ref>

== List of presidents ==
Following people served as presidents:<ref name=shastri>{{cite book|last=Shastri|first=Keshavram Kashiram|title=Gujarat Na Saraswato-1|script-title=gu:ગુજરાતના સારસ્વતો-૧|trans-title=Who's Who in Gujarati Literature|publisher=Gujarat Sahitya Sabha|editor1-last=Trivedi|editor1-first=Shraddha|editor2-last=Shah|editor2-first=Kirtida|editor3-last= Shah|editor3-first=Pratibha|volume=1|location=Ahmedabad|year= 2013|orig-year=1977|pages=15–16|language=gu|oclc=900401455}}</ref>

{| class="wikitable"
! No !! President !!From
!To
|-
| 1 || [[Ramanbhai Neelkanth]] ||1904
|1928
|-
| 2 || [[Keshavlal Dhruv]]||1928
|13 March 1938
|-
| 3 || [[Anandshankar Dhruv]] ||1938
|1942
|-
| 4 || [[Ramnarayan V. Pathak]] ||1942
|1947
|-
| 5 || [[Vidyagauri Nilkanth]] ||1947
|1959
|-
| 6 || [[Rasiklal Parikh]] ||1959
|1982
|-
|7 || [[Anantrai Raval]] ||1982
|1988
|-
|8 || [[Keshavram Kashiram Shastri]] ||1990
|2006
|-
|9 || [[Madhusudan Parekh]] ||2006
|2010
|-
|10 || [[Kumarpal Desai]] ||2010
|Incumbent
|-
|}

== List of vice-presidents ==
Following people served as vice-presidents:<ref name=shastri/>

{| class="wikitable"
! No !! President !!From
!To
|-
| 1 || Janubhai Achratlal Saiyad ||1922
|1925
|-
| 2 || Sakarlal Amritlal Dave ||1925
|1926
|-
| 3 || Hariprasad Vrajrai Desai ||1926
|1929
|-
| 4 || [[Gaurishankar Govardhanram Joshi]] ||1929
|1932
|-
| 5 || Hariprasad Vrajrai Desai ||1933
|1950
|-
| 6 || Gaurishankar Govardhanram Joshi ||1955
|1957
|-
| 7 || [[Rasiklal Parikh]] ||1957
|1959
|-
| 8 || [[Chunilal Shah|Chunilal Vardhman Shah]] ||1959
|1964
|-
| 9 || [[Anantrai Raval]] ||1964
|1980
|-
| 10 || [[Keshavram Kashiram Shastri]] ||1982
|1989
|-
| 11 || Yashwant Shukla ||1990
|1999
|-
| 12 || Madhusudan Parekh ||2003
|2006
|-
| 13 || [[Kumarpal Desai]] ||2006
|2009
|-
| 14 || [[Yogesh Joshi (poet)|Yogesh Joshi]] ||2010
|Incumbent
|-
|}

==See also==
*[[Gujarati Sahitya Parishad]]
*[[Gujarat Vidhya Sabha]]
*[[Gujarat Sahitya Akademi]]

==References==
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[[Category:Gujarati literature]]
[[Category:Organisations based in Ahmedabad]]
[[Category:Gujarati literary institutions]]
[[Category:Book publishing companies of India]]

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