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| name = Krishnalal Mohanlal Jhaveri
| honorific_prefix = [[Dewan Bahadur]]
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| pseudonym = Rafeeq, Hakir
| birth_date = {{Birth date|df=y|1868|12|30}}
| birth_place = Broach, now [[Bharuch]], [[British India]]
| death_date = {{Death date and age|df=y|1957|6|15|1868|12|30}}
| death_place = [[Mumbai]], India
| occupation = Scholar, literary historian, translator
| language = Gujarati, English, Persian
| nationality = Indian
| education = MA, LLB
| alma_mater = [[Elphinstone College]]
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[[Diwan Bahadur]] '''Krishnalal Mohanlal Jhaveri''' (30{{nbsp}}December 1868{{snd}}15{{nbsp}}June 1957) was an [[Indian people|Indian]] writer, scholar, literary historian, translator, and judge from Gujarat, India. His works have been published in [[Gujarati language|Gujarati]], English, and [[Persian language|Persian]]. Jhaveri served as president of the [[Gujarati Sahitya Parishad]] from 1931 to 1933.

==Life==
Krishnalal Jhaveri was born on 30 December 1868 in [[Bharuch|Broach]] into a family of educators. His grandfather, Ranchhoddas Girdhardas Jhaveri, was a pioneer in the field of education and laid the foundations for educational services in Gujarat. Jhaveri's father, Mohanlal Ranchhodlal, was one of the founders of a number of primary schools in the [[Surat District]].<ref name=Dave1957>{{cite journal|last=Dave|first=Jyotindra H.|author-link=Jyotindra Dave|title=K.M. Jhaveri|journal=[[Indian Literature (journal)|Indian Literature]]|date=October 1957|volume=1|issue=1|publisher=[[Sahitya Akademi]]|location=New Delhi|pages=62–64|jstor=23328612}} {{closed access}}</ref>

After finishing school in Broach, [[Surat]], and [[Bhavnagar]], Jhaveri attended [[Samaldas Arts College]] in Bhavnagar where he earned a Bachelor of Arts in English and Persian in 1888. In 1890, he finished a Master of Arts degree in English and Persian at [[Elphinstone College]] where he began working as a lecturer of the Persian language. After completing a Bachelor of Laws in 1892, he started his career as a lawyer in 1893. Jhaveri practised on the appellate side of the High Court of Bombay from 1903 to 1905. At the Presidency Court of Small Causes he served as a judge from 1905 to 1917 and as a chief judge from 1918 to 1928. Jhaveri also served as chief judge at the High Court of [[Palanpur State]].<ref name=Topiwala1996>{{cite encyclopedia|last=Dave|first=Ramesh R.|editor-last=Topiwala|editor-first=Chandrakant|editor-link=Chandrakant Topiwala|title=Jhaveri Krishnalal Mohanlal|encyclopedia=Gujarati Sahitya Kosh (Encyclopedia of Gujarati Literature|year=1996|publisher=[[Gujarati Sahitya Parishad]]|location=Ahmedabad|page=156}}</ref><ref name="Roberts1939">{{cite book|editor=C. Roberts|title=What India Thinks: Being a Symposium of Thought Contributed by 50 Eminent Men and Women Having India's Interest at Heart|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=mLct2qLz-_cC&pg=PA511|access-date=7 March 2018|year=1939|publisher=Asian Educational Services|location=New Delhi|isbn=978-81-206-1880-0|page=511}}</ref>

[[File:Jaybhikhkhu accepting Gold Medal.png|thumb|Jhaveri awarding gold medal to [[Jaybhikhkhu]]|left]]
He was appointed president of [[Gujarati Sahitya Parishad]] from 1931 to 1933. He was the president of the Forbes Gujarati Sabha for three decades, one of the founding members of the [[Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan]], a member of the Syndicate of [[Bombay University]], and the vice-chancellor of [[Shreemati Nathibai Damodar Thackersey Women's University]].<ref name="Datta1988">{{cite book|author=Amaresh Datta|title=Encyclopedia of Indian Literature: Devraj to Jyoti|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=zB4n3MVozbUC&pg=PA1836|year=1988|publisher=Sahitya Akademi|ISBN=978-81-260-1194-0|pages=1836–}}</ref><ref name=Topiwala1996/><ref name=Dave1957/> He was a member of Government Book Committee and Bombay Presidency Social Reform Association and served as joint secretary of Pleader's Association.<ref>{{cite book|editor-last=Rao|editor-first=C. Hayavadana|editor-link=C. Hayavadana Rao|title=The Indian Biographical Dictionary|date=1915|url=https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Indian_Biographical_Dictionary_(1915)/Jhaveri,_Krishnalal_Mohanlal|publisher=Pillar & Co.|location=Madras|pages=210}}</ref>

He died on 15 June 1957, aged 88, in Mumbai, India.<ref name="Chatterjee1957">{{cite book|editor=Ramananda Chatterjee|editor-link=Ramananda Chatterjee|title=The Modern Review|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=YDZyNGt6RXQC|year=1957|publisher=Prabasi Press Private Limited|page=227}}</ref><ref name=Topiwala1996/>

==Works==
[[File:Further Milestones In Gujarati Literature second revised edition cover.jpg|thumb|Further Milestones In Gujarati Literature, second revised edition cover, 1956|left|150px]]
Jhaveri wrote under the pseudonyms Rafeeq and Hakir. He was a profound scholar of Persian<ref name="Datta1988"/><ref name=Topiwala1996/> and contributed significantly to the field of literary history.<ref name="NatarajanNelson1996">{{cite book|author1=Nalini Natarajan|author2=Emmanuel Sampath Nelson|title=Handbook of Twentieth-century Literatures of India|url=https://www.questia.com/read/14143007|year=1996|publisher=Greenwood Press|location=Westport, CT|pages=106–107|isbn=978-0-313-28778-7}}{{dl|date=July 2021}}</ref>

He wrote the books ''Milestones in Gujarati Literature'' (1914) and ''Further Milestones in Gujarati Literature'' (1921) which give a detailed history of Gujarati literature from its initial stage to the modern period. Both books have been translated by Ramlal Modi, Motilal Modi, and Hiralal Parekh into Gujarati as ''Gujarati Sahityana Margasuchak Stambho'' (1930) and ''Gujarati Sahityana Vadhu Margasuchak Stambho'' (1930). He was one of the first to publish a book on Gujarati literary history in English. His other significant works in history include ''Haiderali Ne Tipu Sultan'' (1894), ''Dayaram ane Haphejh'' (1895), ''Badshahi Faramano'', and ''Gujarati Lakhela Parsi Granth '' (1945). He translated several works from Persian, [[Marathi language|Marathi]], [[Urdu]], [[Bengali language|Bengali]] and English.<ref name=Topiwala1996/> Jhaveri translated Ali Muhammad Khan's ''Mirat-e-Ahmadi'' into Gujarati. He reviewed a number of Gujarati works and published in [[Modern Review (Calcutta)|Modern Review]], a literary journal edited by [[Ramananda Chatterjee]].<ref name=Dave1957/><ref name="NatarajanNelson1996"/>

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

==References==
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==External links==
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