Background
He was born in Valod, a small town in South Gujarat on 30 May 1921.
He was born in Valod, a small town in South Gujarat on 30 May 1921.
He did his schooling from Songadh and Navasari. He did his graduation and postgraduation from Elphinstone College in 1945. In the same year, he began his teaching career at Doctorate. J. Singh College in Karachi and later worked in Sardar Patel University.
After 1951, he worked as lectuer, professor and later as Head of the Gujarati Department at the Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda, Vadodara till his retirement in 1981.
He died on 6 September 1986 due to kidney failure at Nadiad.