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{{Infobox person
| name = Harilal Dhruv
| image = HarilalDhruvPic.jpeg
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| birth_name = Harilal Harshadrai Dhruv
| birth_date = {{Birth date|1856|05|10|df=y}}
| birth_place = [[Bahiyal]], [[Gandhinagar District]], (Then [[Sabarkantha district]])
| death_date = {{Death date and age|1896|06|19|1856|05|10|df=y}}
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| occupation = Lawyer, poet, editor, [[indologist]] and scholar of [[Sanskrit literature]]
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| known_for =
| notable_works = ''Kunjavihara'' and ''Pravasapushpanjali''
| education = Bachelor of Arts, LL.B
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'''Harilal Harshadrai Dhruv''' (10 May 1856 – 19 June 1896) ({{lang-gu|હરિલાલ ધ્રુવ}}) was a lawyer, poet, editor, [[indologist]] and scholar of [[Sanskrit literature]]. Educated in Arts and Law, he served as a teacher and later as a judge of [[Baroda state]]. He was interested in [[oriental studies]]. He wrote poetry and edited some works too.

==Life==
Dhruv was born in Hindu [[Nagar Brahmin]] family in 1856. He completed his Bachelor of Arts in 1873 and LL.B in 1880. Dhruv worked as a teacher from 1881 to 1885. Later he started his law career as a pleader from [[Surat]], and was elevated to post of District and Session Judge of [[Baroda state]].<ref name="Datta1988">{{cite book|author=Amaresh Datta|title=Encyclopaedia of Indian Literature|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=zB4n3MVozbUC&pg=PA1005|volume=2|year=1988|publisher=Sahitya Akademi|isbn=978-81-260-1194-0|page=1005}}</ref> He was sent as a representative of [[Bharuch]] in the annual session of [[Indian National Congress]] in 1898 by Baroda state.<ref name="gg">{{cite book|author=Gujarat (India)|title=Gujarat State Gazetteers: Vadodara District|year=1961|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=pCQbAAAAIAAJ|publisher=Directorate of Government Print., Stationery and Publications, Gujarat State|page=135}}</ref>

In 1882, Dhruv founded ''Prajahita Vardhak Sabha'' in Surat with Ukabhai Parabhudas.<ref name="Kendra2007">{{cite book|author=Smt. Hiralaxmi Navanitbhai Shah Dhanya Gurjari Kendra|title=Gujarat|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=g4oMAQAAMAAJ|year=2007|publisher=Gujarat Vishvakosh Trust|page=57}}</ref> He left by SS. Maria Theresa and attended the 8th [[International Congress of Orientalists]] at [[Stockholm]] and [[Oslo|Christiania]] as representative of Baroda in 1889 where he was honoured with Doctor of Literature and Arts.<ref>{{cite book|title=The Indian Magazine|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=HUJBAQAAMAAJ|series=217—228|year=1889|publisher=National Indian Association in Aid of Social Progress and Education in India.|page=490}}</ref> He was a member of the [[Royal Asiatic Society]] and the [[Anthropological Society of London]]. Dhruv received Ph.D. from [[Berlin University]]. His brother [[Keshavlal Dhruv]] was also author, editor and translator. He died in 1896.<ref name="Datta1988"/>

==Works==
His initial poetry was influenced by medieval Gujarati, medieval Hindi and classical [[Sanskrit]] poetry while his later poetry was influenced by English poetry and [[modernism]].<ref name="Datta1988"/><ref name="Maniar1969">{{cite book|author=Umedbhai M. Maniar|title=The Influence of English on Gujarati Poetry|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=HG_RAAAAMAAJ|year=1969|publisher=Faculty of Arts, M. S. University of Baroda|page=64}}</ref>

''Kunjavihara'' and ''Pravasapushpanjali'' are the collections of poems. ''Kunjavihara'' has section of patriotic songs titled ''Swadesh Bhakti''.<ref name="SrinivasanThakkar1999">{{cite book|author1=Ramaswamy Srinivasan|author2=Usha Thakkar|author3=Pam Rajput|title=Pushpanjali: Essays on Gandhian Themes in Honour of Dr. Usha Mehta|url=http://www.gandhi-manibhavan.org/activities/essay_gandhianinspiration.htm|year=1999|publisher=Devika Publications|isbn=978-81-86557-19-8}}</ref> ''Aharmimansa'', ''Aryotkarsha Vyayog'', ''Laghu Chanakya'', ''Vasant Vilasija'', ''Prana Gujarati Sahitya Ratnamala'' are his other works.<ref name="Datta1988"/><ref name="Das1991">{{cite book|author=Sisir Kumar Das|title=History of Indian Literature|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=sHklK65TKQ0C&pg=PA677|volume=1|year=1991|publisher=Sahitya Akademi|isbn=978-81-7201-006-5|page=677}}</ref>

===Bibliography ===
* {{cite book|author=H. H. Dhruva|title=Baroda State Delegate at the VIII. International Congress of Orientalists Stockholm (Sweden) and Christiania (Norway) (1889.)|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=XQkUAAAAYAAJ|year=1893|publisher=Hormusji Jumsedji}}

== See also ==

* [[List of Gujarati-language writers]]

==References==
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