Prabhudas Patwari

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Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. Prabhudas Patwari (1909–85) was an Indian lawyer, community activist, freedom fighter and a Gandhian follower.He was the governor of the Indian state of Tamil Nadu 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. During the emergency he was put in jail by Indira Gandhi administration for his vocal protest of same. Prabhudas Patwari's wife, Savita Patwari (b. 1915) died in December 2005, at the age of 90, in Ahmedabad.


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