Dinkar Pandya

Who is Dinkar Pandya?

Dinkar V. Pandya is an Indian polical figure born in a small village in Gujarat, India.

Pandya was a prominent citizen of the Indian Freedom Movement and was associated with Mahatma Gandhi during the Indian freedom struggle. He was one of the 80 people who joined Mahatma Gandhi during the Dandi March in 1930. When he was 15, he went to the city of Baroda to get his English education. There he came on contact with Of Purani Mandal, which was a revolutionary organization. This organization was started to spread gymnasiums to train school and college boys for future national independence moment. The organization decided to take the centrally located political movement in and around city's to the country side. In 1917, he decided to leave college because a farming land was bought and Pandya volunteered to manage it. He worked there for three years and then soon was asked by Ambubhai Puranito help run the gymnasium business. Pandya worked there for one year, and at this time, the Indian National Congress had gone in the hands of moderate politicians entering a legislative assembles to get reforms towards Home Rule- self government. Not interested is such moderate politics, a thought flashed to go to California to study agriculture.