Dada Bhagwan was born on 7 November 1908. he was also known as Dadashri, Born Ambalal Mujibhai Patel, was an indian spiritual leader from Gujarat who founded the Akram Vignan Movement.
He was religiously inclined from an early age. He worked as a contractor for a company maintaining dry docks in Bombay before attaining “self-realization” in 1958. He left the business and focused on his spiritual goals. The movement around his teaching grew into the Akram Vignan movement gaining followers in Western India and abroad.
In 2012 the Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation named a stretch of road between Visat Crossroads and Sabarmati Crossroads as Pujya Dada Bhagwan Road and the Zundal Circle as Dada Bhagwan Circle.
