Tribhuvandas Kishibhai Patel

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Tribhuvandas Kishibhai Patel
Born	(1903-10-22)22 October 1903 Anand, Bombay Presidency, British India (now Anand, Gujarat, India)
Died	3 June 1994(1994-06-03) (aged 90) Gujarat, India
Political party	Indian National Congress
Spouse	Shrimati Mani Laxmi
Awards	Padma Bhushan (1964) Ramon Magsaysay Award (1963)

Tribhuvandas Kishibhai Patel (22 October 1903 - 3 June 1994)  was an Indian independence activist, lawyer, and politician.^[1] A follower of Mahatma Gandhi,^[1] he is regarded as the father of the cooperative movement in India,^[1] most notably in the Kaira District Co-operative Milk Producers' Union in 1946, and the Anand Co-operative movement.