Vishnuprasad Ranchhodlal Trivedi (4 July 1899 – 10 November 1991) was a Gujarati literary critic from India.

[2][1] Trivedi was inspired by western literature and critics such as Coleridge and Matthew Arnold and Gujarati writers including Govardhanram Tripathi and Anandshankar Dhruv.

Vivechana, his first collection of criticism, was published in 1939, followed by 1939 na Gujarati Vangmayni Sameeksha (1939), Parishilan (1949), Akhegita (1957), Upayan (1961), Sahitya Sansparsha (1979) and Drumaparna (1982).

These lectures assess the essentials of reflective thought in Gujarati prose written during the years 1844 and 1905 A.D.

In these lectures, he has summarized and discussed the thoughts of all the major Gujarati thinkers from Durgaram Mehta to Anandshankar Dhruv.