Rao Bahadur Hargovinddas Dwarkadas Kantawala (16 July 1844 – 31 March 1930) was an Indian Gujarati language writer, editor and researcher from British India.

He was appointed assistant deputy educational inspector, and then principal of the Teacher's Training College, Rajkot.

He was awarded Sahityamartand by Sayajirao Gaekwad III, Maharaja of Baroda State.

[1] He wrote two novels: Andheri Nagarino Gardhavasen (1881) and Be Baheno athava Ek Gharsansari Varta (Two Sisters or A Tale of a Family Life; 1898).

Critic Mansukhlal Jhaveri noted that the poem's language is 'unpolished' and 'vulgar' at places, and the style is 'crude', yet 'forceful'.