Jhaverchand Meghani, an illustrious name in Gujarati literature, was a renowned folklorist and a pioneering researcher, who carried out painstaking excavation of the folklore of Saurashtra and wrote many scholarly treatises on its various aspects preserved mostly by rote. He had received the prestigious Ranjitram Suvarna Chandrak in 1929 for his research in folk literature and the Mahida Paritoshik for Mansai-na Diva.