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{{Infobox writer
| name = Manubhai Jodhani
| image = Manubhai Jodhani.jpg
| caption = Jodhani around 1946
| birth_name = Manubhai Jodhani
| birth_date = {{Birth date|df=y|1902|10|28}}
| birth_place = Barwala, [[British India]]
| death_date = {{Death date and age|df=y|1979|||1905|10|28}}
| death_place =
| occupation = Writer, folklorist, ornithologist, botanist, editor
}}
'''Manubhai Lallubhai Jodhani''' (28 October 1902 – 29 December 1979) was a [[Gujarati language|Gujarati]] writer, folklorist, ornithologist, botanist and editor from [[Gujarat]], India. He had published more than 15 books.<ref name="who">{{Cite book|last=Akademi|first=Sahitya|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=56PWDwAAQBAJ&q=manubhai+jodhani&pg=PA143|title=Whos Who Of Indian Writers|publisher=Dalcassian Publishing Company|language=en}}</ref>

==Biography==
Jodhani was born on 28 October 1902 in [[Barvala, Botad district|Barwala]] (now in [[Botad district]], [[Gujarat]], India).<ref name=":1" /><ref name="GSP" /><ref name=":2">{{Cite book|last=Desai|first=Ratilal Deepchand|title=Amruta-Sameepe|publisher=Gurjar Granthratna Karyalaya|year=2003|editor-last=Desai|editor-first=Nitin R.|location=Ahmedabad|pages=373–374|language=gu|chapter=7. ધિંગા લોકસાહિત્યકાર શ્રી મનુભાઈ જોધાણી}}</ref> He received his primary school education at [[Limbdi]]. He became a school teacher in Barwala 1920. In 1930 he resigned to join the [[Indian Freedom Movement|Indian Independence Movement]].<ref name="GSP">{{Cite web|title=મનુભાઈ જોધાણી|url=http://www.gujaratisahityaparishad.com/prakashan/photo-gallery/sahitya-sarjako/Manubhai-Jodhani.html|publisher=[[Gujarati Sahitya Parishad]]|language=gu|access-date=2020-04-28}}</ref><ref name=":2" /> Following [[Mahatma Gandhi]]'s [[Salt Satyagraha]], an independence activist Amrutlal Sheth decided to hold [[Satyagraha]] at [[Dholera]]. Jodhani played a leading role in Dholera Salt Satyagraha and the British Police had issued an [[arrest warrant]] for Jodhani.<ref>{{Cite web|title=આંખો આંસુથી વહેવા લાગી હતી: સૌરાષ્ટ્રના સ્વાતંત્ર્ય સૈનિકો અને લડતો|url=http://sandesh.com/eyes-with-tears-flowing-takes/|last=Madhad|first=Raghavji|date=2020-03-25|website=Sandesh|access-date=2020-04-28}}</ref>

Later he joined the Jivanlal Amarshi Booksellers. He also worked with various magazines including ''[[Stribodh]]'' as a sub editor as well as ''Strijivan'' as an editor for 39 years.<ref name="GSP" /><ref name=":2" /> He was a member of a committee formed by the [[Government of Gujarat]] to promote folk literature.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=o7xjAAAAMAAJ&q=manubhai+jodhani|title=The Indian P.E.N.|date=1968|publisher=P.E.N. All-India Centre.|language=en}}</ref><ref name=":2" />

He died on 29 December 1979.<ref name=":2" /><ref name=":0">{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=g4oMAQAAMAAJ&q=manubhai+jodhani|title=Gujarat|publisher=Smt Hiralaxmi Navanitbhai Shah Dhanya Gurjari Kendra, Gujarat Vishvakosh Trust|year=2007|location=Ahmedabad|pages=235, 426}}</ref> His son Vasantkumar Jodhai was also a writer who published works on science and animals.<ref name=":1">{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=56PWDwAAQBAJ&q=manubhai+jodhani&pg=PA143|title=Whos Who Of Indian Writers|publisher=Sahitya Akademi|year=1961|location=New Delhi|pages=143}}</ref>

==Works==
Jodhani has contributed considerably in the field of folk literature.<ref name=":0" /><ref>{{Cite journal|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=MxraAAAAMAAJ&q=manubhai+jodhani|title=Contribution of Gujarat to the Field of Folklore|journal=Indian Folklore Research Journal|publisher=National Folklore Support Centre|year=2002|pages=77|issue=2–5}}</ref><ref name="GSP" /> He was an ornithologist and botanist.<ref name=":0" /><ref>{{Cite book|last1=Daniel|first1=J. C.|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=w_baAAAAMAAJ&q=manubhai+jodhani|title=Petronia: Fifty Years of Post-independence Ornithology in India : a Centenary Dedication to Dr. Salim Ali, 1896-1996|last2=Ali|first2=Sálim|last3=Ugra|first3=Gayatri|date=2003|publisher=Bombay Natural History Society|isbn=978-0-19-566653-3|pages=104}}</ref> He pioneered story writings on [[flora and fauna of Gujarat]].<ref>{{Cite book|last=JAMUNA|first=K. A.|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=KS0nDwAAQBAJ&q=manubhai+jodhani&pg=PT59|title=Children's Literature in Indian Languages|date=2017-06-01|publisher=Publications Division Ministry of Information & Broadcasting|isbn=978-81-230-2456-1|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|last1=Jamunā|first1=Ke E.|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=g45NAQAAIAAJ&q=manubhai+jodhani|title=Children's literature in Indian languages|last2=Division|first2=India Ministry of Information and Broadcasting Publications|date=1982|publisher=Publications Division, Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, Govt. of India|language=en}}</ref><ref name=":2" />

His works on folk literature include ''Sorathi Javahir'' (1930), ''Sorathi Vibhuto'' (1964), ''Randalna Geeto'', ''Gujarati Loksahitya Mala'' (cowritten with Manjula Majmudar, Bachubhai Raval) and ''Janpad'' (1940, 1944, 1955; sketches).<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Magara|first=Naresh|date=January–February 2019|title=ગુજરાતી લોકસાહિત્યક્ષેત્રે થયેલ સંશોધન – સંપાદનની કામગીરીની રૂપરેખા|url=http://www.sahityasetu.co.in/issue49/magara.php|journal=Sahitya Setu|language=gu|publisher=Tanvi Shukla|volume=9|issue=49|issn=2249-2372}}</ref><ref name=":2" />

His short stories include ''Shilvati'' (1928) and ''Sundariona Shangar''. ''Nagmati'' (1932) is his only novel. ''Khatimithi Balavato'' and ''Kumaroni Pravaskatha'' are works of children's literature.<ref name=":1" />

''Padarni Vanaspati'' I-II (1954–55), ''Anganana Pankhi'' I-II (1955–56), ''Padarna Pankhi'' (1956) are his works on botany and ornithology.<ref name=":1" />

He translated [[Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay]]'s ''Bindur Chhele'' as ''Bindu'' (1939).<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=C59jAAAAMAAJ&q=manubhai+jodhani|title=Śaratcandra o Bhāratīẏa sāhitya|date=1976|publisher=Nikhila Bhārata Baṅga Sāhitya Sammelana, Dillī Sākhā|pages=1957|language=bn}}</ref>

He helped to publish Manuben Gandhi's memoir, ''Last Glimpses of Bapu''.

==Recognition==
There is a road named after him in Paldi, Ahmedabad.

== See also ==

* [[List of Gujarati-language writers]]

==References==
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[[Category:Indian folklorists]]
[[Category:Indian short story writers]]
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[[Category:20th-century Indian botanists]]
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[[Category:20th-century translators]]
[[Category:20th-century Indian zoologists]]

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