Dolarrai Mankad

Dolarrai Mankad, (Hindi: डोलरराय मांकद Gujarati: ડોલરરાય માંકડ; 23 January 1902 – 29 August 1970), full name Dolarrai Rangildas Mankad, was a Gujarati critic, researcher and poet who won the 1964 Sahitya Akademi Award for Gujarati language for his essay Naivedya. He was the first vice-chancellor of Saurashtra University. Dolarrai Mankad was born in Kutch on 23 January 1902. After completing his primary and secondary education in Saurashtra, he went to Karachi. There he joined Bharat Sarasvati Mandir as an assistant teacher for 1923–25, after which he became the principal of the same institution again for a term of 2 years. In 1927 he joined D. J. Science College as a professor for Gujarati language and Sanskrit. He held this office till the partition of India.