page_title: Jivraj Narayan Mehta
section_title: Early life
hierarchical_section_title: Jivraj Narayan Mehta / Early life
caption_attribution_description: ગુજરાતી: ગુજરાતના પ્રથમ મુખ્યમંત્રી ડૉ.જીવરાજ મહેતાનું અમરેલી સ્થિત નિવાસસ્થાન.
context_page_description: Jivraj Narayan Mehta was an Indian politician and the first Chief Minister of Gujarat. He served as the first "Dewan" of the erstwhile Baroda state, and Indian high commissioner to the United Kingdom from 1963 to 1966.
context_section_description: Jivraj Narayan Mehta was born on 29 August 1887 to Narayan and Jamakben Mehta in Amreli in Bombay Presidency. He was son-in-law of Manubhai Mehta, then Dewan of Baroda state. In his early age, Dr. Eduljee Rustomji Dadachandjee, a civil surgeon in Amreli prompted him to take up medicine. He subsequently secured admission into the Grant Medical College and Sir J. J. Hospital, Bombay, after clearing a stiff written test and a thorough viva voce examination that was conducted by the British IMS officers.
  Mehta's medical education was sponsored by the Seth VM Kapol Boarding Trust. He topped the class in his First Licentiate in Medicine and Surgery(equivalent of MBBS) examination. In his final year, he won seven of the eight prizes open to his batch and shared the eighth prize with his hostel roommate Kashinath Dikshit.
  Later, for postgraduate studies in London he applied to the Tata education foundation for a student loan and he was selected as one of the only two students for this prestigious fellowship from amongst several bright students who had applied for it. Jivraj Mehta lived from 1909 to 1915 in London. He was the president of the Indian Students Association in London where he studied medicine and did his FRCS there. He won University gold medal in his MD examinations in 1914. Later, he became a member of the Royal College of Physicians of London.
caption: Jivraj Mehta's house in Amreli
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