Babubhai Pranjivan Vaidya (23 July 1909 – 12 December 1979) was an Indian independence activist, politician, social reformer, journalist and writer.
Vaidya joined the Indian Independence Movement after his graduation from the University of Mumbai in Bombay, where he had studied English Literature.
Vaidya was elected to Saurashtra State Legislative Assembly in 1951 from Jetpur constituency as a candidate of Indian National Congress.
[2] He was one of the first Indian authors to translate the works of Henrik Ibsen, Oscar Wilde, Pamela Walton, and Salam Alekum into the Gujarati language.
Vaidya wrote two major novels, Vishwamitra and Shakuntaleya Bharat, which depicts his vision of the future of India, based on its past before British colonization.