Karan Ghelo: Gujarat's Last Rajput King

By Nandshankar Tuljashankar Mehta and Penguin India

The first Indian headmaster of an English-medium school in Surat, and later Diwan of Bhuj, Nandshankar Mehta (1835-1905) was a strong advocate of social reform. Karan Ghelo, the first modern Gujarati novel and his only work of fiction, draws heavily on bardic chronicles and historic texts. // Tulsi Vatsal, a graduate of Oxford University, is an independent researcher, writer and editor. She has authored a number of books on Indian history and culture. Her latest book is Sahib, Bibi, Nawab: Baluchar Silks of Bengal 1750-1900. // Aban Mukherji is the author of Soonamai Desai of Navsari: A Biographical and Autobiographical Sketch. She is currently co-editing a nineteenth-century Gujarati text, Mumbaino Bahaar.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0143426095
• ISBN13: 9780143426097
• Release Date: April 2016
• Publisher: India Penguin
• Length: 344 Pages