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the same examination. Miss Sharada Gopilal Dhruv and Miss Dinabai Pestanji Jamas passed the Matriculation examination.35
The first female member of the society was enrolled in the year 1892. She was from Petlad named Rukshmanibai, her father Naranji Nandlal paid her subscription. The father and the daughter both were the members of the society. 36 In the year 1915 there were 45 female members of the society from the city of Ahmedabad and 123 female members were from the City of Bomday and the other places. 37
In short the various activities of Gujarat Vainacular Society helped the emergence and the growth of women's awakening. This undoubtedly show that the Gujarat Varnacular Society had mobilized the Gujarati women folk much before Mahatma Gandhi gave a dynamic orientation towards the problems of women.
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Neera Desai Social Change in Gujarat Vora and Co. Publishers Pvt. Ltd. Bombay, 1979, p. 68.
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Usha Bhatt Gujaratma Samajik Sudharanani Samiksha-Stri Utkarsh Vikasgrih' Vikasgrih, Ahmedabad, 1st January 1982, April 1982, October 1982.
Neera Desa Social Change in Gujarat p 67
Karsandas Mulaji Nibandh Mala, Vol. 1, 1870 From the article written on 24th October 1858
Narmada Shankar L.Dave Narmgady Premanand Sahitya Sabha, Baroda (1865) pp 184-187
Usha Bhatt Gujarat Varnacular Society-Prarambhik tabbako" Vidya, Gujarat University A Humanities January 1981, Vol XXIV, No. 1, p 1
Hiralai T. Parekh Gujarat Varnacular Society no Itihas Part 1 Ahmedabad, 1932, p. 9
Hiralal T, Parekh Gujarat
Ibid p 23
Ibid P 16
Buddhi Prakash Vol. 1, 7th March 1954.
Ibid. Vol 2, July 1855, pp 97, 99.
(a) Dalpatram Dahyabhai Dalpat kavy, Vol.1, Bombay 1879 pp. 55-73. (b) Buddhi Prakash Vol.6 No 1 January 1859 p.1 'Victoria Maharanina Chand'
