He was honored with Sahitya Akademi Fellowship in 1971 for his literary achievements. Kalelkar received a Sahitya Akademi Award in 1965 for his Jeevan-Vyavastha, a collection of essays in Gujarati.
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Mahatma Gandhi's Gospel of Swadeshi (English).Quintessence of Gandhian Thought (English).The following is a partial list of Kalelkar's books: Kalelkar wrote several books, including voluminous travelogues, in Gujarati, Marathi, and Hindi. He established Gandhi Vidyapith, Vedchhi in 1967 and served as its vice chancellor. He presided Gujarati Sahitya Parishad in 1959. He was appointed as a member of Rajya Sabha from 1952 to 1964 and later appointed as a president of Backward Classes Commission in 1953. He was active with Gandhi Smarak Nidhi from 1948 to his death. In 1935, Kalelkar became member of Rashtabhasha Samiti, a committee whose objective was to popularize Hindi- Hindustani language as the national language of India. Mahatma Gandhi called him Savai Gujarati, a quarter more than a Gujarati. He retired from Gujarat Vidyapith in 1939. With Gandhi's encouragement, he played an active role in establishing Gujarat Vidyapith at Ahmedabad, and served as its vice-chancellor from 1928 to 1935. He was imprisoned several times due to his participation in Indian independence movement. For some time, he served as the editor of Sarwodaya periodical which was run from the premises of the Ashram. He taught at Rashtriya Shala of Sabarmati Ashram. Influenced by Gandhi, he became member of Sabarmati Ashram. He traveled to the Himalayas by foot and later joined Acharya Kripalani on a visit to Burma ( Myanmar) in 1913. In 1912, the British government forcibly closed down the school because of its nationalistic spirit. He worked for a while on the editorial staff of a nationalistic Marathi daily named Rashtramat, and then as a teacher at a school named Ganganath Vidyalaya in Baroda in 1910. and joined Ganesh Vidyalaya in Belgaum in 1908. He appeared in the first year examination of LL.B. in Philosophy from Fergusson College, Pune in 1907.
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He matriculated in 1903 and completed B.A. His family's ancestral village of Kaleli, near Sawantwadi in Maharashtra, gave him his surname Kalelkar. Kalelkar was born in Satara on 1 December 1885.