Tribhuvandas Kishibhai Patel

Tribhuvandas Kishibhai Patel
Born(1903-10-22)22 October 1903
Anand, Bombay Presidency, British India (now in Gujarat, India)
Died3 June 1994(1994-06-03) (aged 90)
Gujarat, India
Political partyIndian National Congress
SpouseShrimati Mani Laxmi
AwardsPadma Bhushan (1964)
Ramon Magsaysay Award (1963)

Tribhuvandas Kishibhai Patel (22 October 1903 - 3 June 1994)  was an Indian independence activist, lawyer, and politician. A follower of Mahatma Gandhi, he is regarded as the father of the cooperative movement in India, most notably in the Kaira District Co-operative Milk Producers' Union in 1946, and the Anand Co-operative movement.

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