Background
Raghuveer Chaudhari was born on 5 December 1938, in Bapupura village near Gandhinagar, Gujarat, to Dalsingh and Jeetiben, a religious farming couple.
Raghuveer Chaudhari was born on 5 December 1938, in Bapupura village near Gandhinagar, Gujarat, to Dalsingh and Jeetiben, a religious farming couple.
He completed primary and secondary education in Mansa, Gujarat. In 1979, Chaudhari also received a Doctor of Philosophy for his Comparative Study of Hindi and Gujarati Verbal Roots at the same university.
He has also worked as a columnist for numerous newspapers, such as Sandesh, Janmabhumi, Nirikshaka and Divya Bhaskar. He was a teacher at the Gujarat University until his retirement in 1998. His most significant contributions have been in Gujarati language but he has also written Hindi articles
Raghuveer Chaudhari started his career writing novels and poetry, and later ventured into other forms of literature.
He authored more than 80 books and received numerous literary awards. He also served for many literary organisations.
He received a Bachelor of Arts in 1960 and Master of Arts in Hindi language and literature in 1962 from Gujarat University. He participated in the Navnirman Movement and opposed the Emergency in the 1970s.
Chaudhari joined the School of Languages in Gujarat University from 1977 and retired as a professor and the head of Department of Hindi in 1998.
He served for the executive council of Sahitya Akademi from 1998 to 2002. After retirement, he returned to Bapupura and started agricultural activities. He was the president of Gujarati Sahitya Parishad in 2001 and is currently serving as its trustee.
He was awarded the Sahitya Akademi award for his novel trilogy Uparvas in 1977.
He was a member of the Press Council of India from 2002 to 2004 and was also appointed as a jury member of the 25th Indian Film Festival.