Kakalbhai Ravjibhai Kothari

| label5 = Death

| label5 = Death

| data5 = [[Ahmedabad]] (1965)

| data5 = [[Ahmedabad]] (1965)

| label6 = Spouse

| data6 = Soorajba Kothari

| label7 = Children

| data7 = Bachubhai Kothari, Rajnikant Kothari

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'''Kakalbhai Ravjibhai Kothari''' was an [https://amritkaal.nic.in/unsung-heroes-detail.htm?15533 Indian freedom fighter], journalist, editor, and social reformer from the Kathiawar region of present-day [[Gujarat]]. His contributions were majorly to the struggle of the Indians to get independence especially in his pioneering work on the Gujarati press.<ref>{{cite journal |last=Shah |first=Girish |title=The Role of Gujarati Press in India's Freedom Struggle |journal=Indian Journalism Review |volume=12 |issue=1 |year=1995 |pages=43–55}}</ref> Kothari was also a person active in the mobilization of the nationalist cause and expressing the interests of the population in the princely colonials of the time.<ref>{{cite journal |last=Chakrabarty |first=Bidyut |title=Popular Movements in Princely India |journal=South Asian Studies |volume=15 |issue=1 |year=1999}}</ref> He was the founder of [https://theprabhat.com/ The Prabhat], one of the first [[Media in Gujarati language]], which has been continuously published for over 90 years.<ref>{{cite book |last=Mehta |first=Urvish |title=Gujarati Patrakaritano Itihas |publisher=Gujarat Sahitya Akademi |year=2001}}</ref>

'''Kakalbhai Ravjibhai Kothari''' was an [https://amritkaal.nic.in/unsung-heroes-detail.htm?15533 Indian freedom fighter], journalist, editor, and social reformer from the Kathiawar region of present-day [[Gujarat]]. His contributions were majorly to the struggle of the Indians to get independence especially in his pioneering work on the Gujarati press.<ref>{{cite journal |last=Shah |first=Girish |title=The Role of Gujarati Press in India's Freedom Struggle |journal=Indian Journalism Review |volume=12 |issue=1 |year=1995 |pages=43–55}}</ref> Kothari was also a person active in the mobilization of the nationalist cause and expressing the interests of the population in the princely colonials of the time.<ref>{{cite journal |last=Chakrabarty |first=Bidyut |title=Popular Movements in Princely India |journal=South Asian Studies |volume=15 |issue=1 |year=1999}}</ref> He was the founder of [https://theprabhat.com/ The Prabhat], one of the first [[Media in Gujarati language]], which has been continuously published for over 90 years.<ref>{{cite book |last=Mehta |first=Urvish |title=Gujarati Patrakaritano Itihas |publisher=Gujarat Sahitya Akademi |year=2001}}</ref>