Govardhanram Madhavram Tripathi

Govardhanram Madhavram Tripathi (1855–1907) is considered the foremost novelist of nineteenth-century Gujarati literature. His magnum opus Sarasvatichandra, composed across four volumes between 1887 and 1901, traces the intertwined destinies of two lovers separated by circumstance and is widely recognised as the first major Indian social novel. The era from 1885 to 1915 in Gujarati letters is named the Govardhan-Yug in his honour.