Gujarat Vidya Sabha

Gujarat Vidya Sabha, originally called Gujarat Vernacular Society, is a literary institution for the promotion of vernacular Gujarati literature and education, and for the collection of manuscripts and printed books; located in the city of Ahmedabad, India.

It was founded by a British administrator, Alexander Kinloch Forbes, in 1848 with the Gujarati author Dalpatram.

[1] Gujarat Vernacular Society was founded by British East India Company administrator, Alexander Kinloch Forbes on 26 December 1848 along with Dalpatram.

It was a weekly paper issued on Wednesday, Budhvar, and hence in Ahmedabad all newspapers were called Budhvariya during those times.

It undertakes to sell and distribute books, and offers annual prizes for essays on various useful subjects.

[5] The textile pioneer of Gujarat, Rao Bahadur Ranchhodlal Chhotalal, donated money to the Gujarat Vernacular Society to start a girls' high school, which was started in 1892 and was named RB Ranchhodlal Chhotalal Girls High School after the donor.

[1] In 1939, the society's president Anandshankar Dhruv instituted the Department of Postgraduate Education and Research with a donation of 2 lakh rupees from Bholabhai Jeshingbhai and since 1946 functions as the Sheth Bholabhai Jeshingbhai Institute of Learning And Research.