page_title: Mansukhram Tripathi
section_title: Biography
hierarchical_section_title: Mansukhram Tripathi / Biography
caption_attribution_description: English: Dahilaxmi Library, Nadiad (Gujarat), founded by Mansukhram Suryaram Tripathi
context_page_description: Mansukhram Suryaram Tripathi was a Gujarati essayist, biographer, and thinker from British India. He led a conservative school of Gujarati writers who advocated avoiding the use of foreign words in writing and speaking, and promoted the use of Sanskrit or Sanskritised words. He was a cousin of the Gujarati writer Govardhanram Tripathi.
context_section_description: Tripathi was born into a Vadnagara Nagar Brahmin family on 23 May 1840 in Nadiad in the British Indian state of Gujarat to his father, Suryaram, and mother, Umedkunwar. His father died when he was eight. He received his secondary and college education in Kheda and Ahmedabad. In 1861, he joined Elphinstone College, but left due to an eye-problem. Later he made a career as a stock trader. He died on 30 May 1907 in Nadiad. Gujarati writer Govardhanram Tripathi was his younger cousin.
  Tripathi was associated with several literary associations in Gujarat. He was one of the founder members of Farbus Gujarati Sabha and was a member of Buddhi Vardhak Sabha. In 1870, he founded Dharma Sabha in Ahmedabad and became editor of its organ Dharmaprakash. He founded the Dahilakshmi Library in Nadiad in memory of his wife Dahilakshmi. He was appointed as a fellow of Mumbai University, and was appointed a justice of the peace. In 1866–67 (Vikram Samvat 1923), Gokulji Zala, a dewan (a senior government official) of Junagadh state, heard a lecture by Tripathi at Bombay, and was impressed. Later Zala appointed Tripathi as one of agents of Junagadh state at Bombay.
caption: Tripathi founded Dahilaxmi Library at Nadiad
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