I came to know about the retire Professor Arvind Bhandari as I joined the Gujarat University. Will you please tell me to which department the professor Arvind Bhandari worked for and what are the research works performed by this professor at the University?

The Department of Linguistics was built up was set up in 1961 under the headship of Dr.Prabodh Pandit, a famous researcher of Linguistics.

The division again got to be distinctly single workforce office till 1980, when Dr.Arvind Bhandari joined as Lecturer and Dr.Nilotpala Gandhi as teacher in 1990.

Amid these years the Department was going full bore and embraced great venture and the staff brought out great number of books and research papers which were granted by various establishments. The division likewise dealt with undertakings of Textbook research Board in get ready fundamental vocabulary on essential level and furthermore chipped away at lingos of Gujarati and Gujarati Grammar.

The Department embraced the venture of get ready Gujarati Thesaurus for Government of Gujarat and is in the last stage. Dr.Gandhi

is working with Central Institute of Indian Language of Gujarati Corpus and Dr.Bhandari has recently finished English-English-Gujarati Dictionary with a similar foundation.

Dr.Bhandari likewise worked with SWEA a NGO for their grown-up training program for ladies cultivate specialists and weavers.

The Department has undertaken projects in the areas of:

1) The Phonemic Frequencies of Gujarati (Dr.Prabodh Pandit)
2) Kachchi Dialect (Dr.Shantibhai Acharya
3) Role of Language in teaching mathametics (Dr.Arvind Bhandari) Gujarati Basic Vocabulary (Dr.Vyas and Dr.Bhandari), Gujarati Thesaurus (Dr.Arvind Bhandari and Dr.N.A.Gandhi)

Contact:

Department of Linguistics
University of Languages
Gujarat Univesity,
Navrangpura,
Ahmedabad - 380009
Phone: 91-079-26302382