page_title: Chandrakant Topiwala
section_title: Early life
hierarchical_section_title: Chandrakant Topiwala / Early life
caption_attribution_description: English: Chandrakant Topiwala with his wife Shalini Topiwala at Gujarati Sahitya Parishad on 19 June 2016
context_page_description: Chandrakant Amritlal Topiwala is a Gujarati language poet and critic from Gujarat, India.
context_section_description: Topiwala was born on 7 August 1936 at Vadodara, to Amritlal and Lilavati. He completed his Bachelor of Arts in Gujarati from the University of Bombay-affiliated Saint Xavier's College in 1958, and received his Masters in 1960. He completed his PhD in 1982 from Gujarat University.
caption: Topiwala with his wife Shalini Topiwala at Gujarati Sahitya Parishad on 19 June 2016
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