Editing Mahadev Desai (section)

== Early life ==
Mahadev Desai was born in an [[anavil Brahmin]] family{{citation needed|date=February 2022}} on 1 January 1892 in the village of Saras in the [[Surat district]] of [[Gujarat]] to Haribhai Desai, a school teacher, and his wife Jamnabehn. Jamnabehn died when Desai was seven years old. In 1905, aged 13, Mahadev was married to Durgabehn. He was educated at the Surat High School and the [[Elphinstone College]], [[Mumbai]]. Desai graduated with a BA Degree, and after earning his L.L.B in 1913 took a job as an inspector at the central co-operative bank in Bombay{{citation needed|date=February 2022}}