page_title: Govardhanram Tripathi
section_title: Life
hierarchical_section_title: Govardhanram Tripathi / Life
caption_attribution_description: English: The birth place of Gujarati writer Govardhanram Tripathi in Nadiad (Gujarat, India). The place in now known as Govardhanram Smriti Mandir.
context_page_description: Govardhanram Madhavram Tripathi was an Indian Gujarati language novelist of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. He is known for his four volume novel, Saraswatichandra, acclaimed as one of the masterpiece of Gujarati literature. The novel represents the life of Gujarat during the early part of 19th-century.
context_section_description: Govardhanram was born in Vadnagara nagar brahmin family on 20 October 1855 on the day of the Dashera festival at Nadiad, Bombay presidency  (now in Gujarat), to his mother, Shivkashi, and his father, Govardhanram. He took his primary education from the Buddhivardhak Gujarati Shala in Mumbai and Government English School at Nadiad. Thereafter, he joined Elphinstone High School from where he passed his matriculation examination in 1871. In the same year, he joined Elphinstone College to obtain his BA degree. He passed his BA examination at the second attempt, in 1875.
  After three unsuccessful attempts, he passed LLB examination in 1883, and started working as a lawyer in Mumbai in 1884. At the age of 43, he retired early and settled in his hometown to contribute to Gujarati literature and public service.
  Govardhanram died in Mumbai on the evening of 4 January 1907.
caption: birthplace of Govardhanram in Nadiad
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