Tribute to 19th Century Indian Legend Shri Virchandji Raghavji Gandhi

Author(s): JAINA VRG Committee
Publisher: JAINA VRG Committee

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11. Kamleshbhai Amin, Ex. Executive Director till recently who
diligently helped on all JAINA's correspondence from time to time. Sulekh Jain Ex-JAINA President has always motivated everyone associated with VRG Awareness Projects & he has
also incorporated VRG details in its Curriculum at ISSJS. 13. Chandrakant M. Shah & Ashwin Shah committee members
of JAINA, VRG K: ANONYMOUS OR UNKNOWN CONTRIBUTIONS:
Names of the following persons are mentioned at some places but details about their contributions are not known/not available. 1. Gautam Osval of Acharya Sushilmuni Ashram, Delhi. , 2.
Puj. Rakesh Muni. 3. Justice Mangelal Jain. , 4. Rajkumar Jain. , 5. S. K. Jain. ,6.
Dr. Hemant Shah. ,7. Inderjit Gopal Singh, Involvement of Shri Mahavir Jain Vidyalay: 1. Atmaramji aka Vijayanandsuri who deputed VRG to the
1893 Parliament was Acharya Vijay Vallabhsuri's (Founder of
Shri Mahavir Jain Vidyalaya in 1916) GURU. 2. SMJV has published tens of books of VRG. 3. Shri Kantibhai Kora, Chandulal Vardhaman (then Secretary),
Pannalal R. Shah of Mahuva, Alumnus visited VRG family in Mahuva (VRG's birth town) in 1964 and brought all Gold, Silver Medals received by VRG in North America, Europe, India and hand written VRG literature to SMJV, H.O./H.Q. at Gowalia Tank Mumbai for preserving the same.
I as a SMJV Alumnus (Gowalia Tank 1956-58, Vadodara 195859) was fortunate to see all those medals in 2001 at H.O./H.Q. due to courtesy shown by Shri C.N. Sanghavi (also SMJV Alumnus)
Many articles & books are written about life and works of VRG and few are listed on the Jaina VRG website under literature sub-heading. Efforts are being made for inclusions of the VRG's picture on the Parliament's website were information is noted.
I would welcome any question or concerns, if you have any. I sincerely thank you all for giving your time by patiently hearing me.
Please accept our Michamidukadam if knowingly or unknowingly we hurted anybody due to incorrect inclusions or unintentional exclusions.
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