Ansuya Trivedi

Ansuya Trivedi (born 7 April 1924) was Gujarati critic, editor and researcher from Gujarat state of India. She studied and later taught Gujarati language and literature in various colleges in Mumbai. With her husband Bhupendra Trivedi, she coedited and researched several works including many on medieval Gujarati poet Akha Bhagat. She had extensively studied and published works on the proverbs in Gujarati. Ansuya Trivedi was born on 7 April 1924 in Bombay (now Mumbai). She matriculated in 1941. She studied BA and completed it with first class in 1946. She taught as a Dakshina Fellow in Elphinstone College from 1946 to 1948. She completed MA in 1948 and BT in 1950. In 1966, she was awarded PhD for her thesis Madhyakalin Gujarati Sahityama Prayukt Kahevao (transl. Proverbs used in medieval Gujarati literature) under Harivallabh Bhayani. In 1970, she obtained the Diploma in Linguistics from the University of Mumbai.