Prabhudas Patwari was an Indian lawyer, community activist, freedom fighter and a Gandhian follower.He was the governor of the Indian state of Tamil Nadu

Tamil Nadu

Tamil Nadu is one of the 28 states of India. Its capital and largest city is Chennai. Tamil Nadu lies in the southernmost part of the Indian Peninsula and is bordered by the union territory of Pondicherry, and the states of Kerala, Karnataka, and Andhra Pradesh...

 between 1977 and 1980. An advocate of abstinence and moral virtue, he was a teetotaler. He stayed active as an anti-alcohol campaigner in his home state of Gujarat until his death.

Prabhudas Patwari's wife, Savita Patwari (b.1915) died in December 2005, at the age of 90, in Ahmedabad

Ahmedabad

Ahmedabad also known as Karnavati is the largest city in Gujarat, India. It is the former capital of Gujarat and is also the judicial capital of Gujarat as the Gujarat High Court has its seat in Ahmedabad...

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