Ramanlal Jethalal Joshi (22 May 1926 – 10 September 2006) was Gujarati language literary critic and editor from India.

Ramanlal was born on 22 May 1926 in Heerpura near Vijapur in north Gujarat to Jethalal and Maniben.

He joined the School of Languages in Gujarat University and served as a professor from 1962 to 1968, as a reader from 1969 to 1979, a lecturer of Gujarati from 1979.

His works of criticism are Govardhanram: Ek Adhyayan (1963, updated 1978), Abhipsa (1968–78), Pariman (1969), Shabdasetu (1970), Pratyaya (1970), Bharatiya Naval Katha Vol I (1974), Samantar (1976), Viniyog (1977), Gujarati Sahitya Sabhani Katyavahi : 1963 (1977), Vivechanni Prakriya (1981), Pragnyamurti Govardhanram (1986), Nishpatti (1988), Parivesh (1988), Vivechan ni Abohava (1989), Aadivachan (1995), Nirupan (1999) and Granthno Panth (1999).

Sakshar Navalram Laxmiram nu Jivanvrutant ane Kavijivan (1966), Shabdalok na Yatrio 1–2 (1983) and Akshatna Aradhako 1–2 (1998) are his biographical works.

[1] He coedited Akhegeeta (1967, 1978, with Umashankar Joshi) and Akha na Kavyo (1995), the collection of poetry by medieval poet, Akho.

He also coedited Kavyasanchay-3 (1981, with Jayant Pathak), Uttamlal ni Gadyasiddhi (1972, with Ramprasad Bakshi), Govardhan Pratibha (1983), Phool Zare Gulmahor (1982, 1984, selected stories of Gulabdas Broker), Gurushishya Samvad (with Dhiru Parikh), Sundaramna Kavyoi, Jyotirekha, Sundaramni Pratinidhi Vartao (1989).