Family histories play an important role in bringing the past to life. They are a source of inspiration to the clan and an anchor to the present. They are an invaluable primary source for historians to flesh out the chronicles of a place and its people.
Prof (Dr) Hosang F. Mogal who has written, edited and published in Gujarati Amé ‘Mogal’ Mahuvana (History of the Mogals of Mahuva), was born into a behdin family of Mahuva district in Surat, though the Mogal or Mughal families of Udvada are athornans.
As a child Mogal had to undertake a two-hour bus journey to his......