Hariprasad Gangashankar Shastri was an Indian scholar, historian, epigraphist, Indologist and editor primarily known for his work on the political and cultural history of Gujarat state.
14 Facts About Hariprasad Shastri
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Hariprasad Shastri was born on 17 October 1919 at Malataj, a village near Petlad.
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Hariprasad Shastri was the youngest son of Gangashankar Shastri, a physician and ritualist.
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Hariprasad Shastri's elder brother, Shankarlal Shastri, was a professor of Sanskrit at the Bahauddin College, Junagadh and a Gujarati literary critic.
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Hariprasad Shastri's grandfather, Vrajlal Kalidas Shastri was a scholar of Sanskrit and Prakrit languages as well as a pioneer philologist of Gujarati and the youngest brother of the saint-poet, Chhotam.
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Hariprasad Shastri married Shridevi Bhatt, daughter of an educationalist Karunashankar Kuberji Bhatt, in 1947.
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Hariprasad Shastri moved to Junagadh and joined Bahadur Khanji High School in 1932, from where, he matriculated in 1936.
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Hariprasad Shastri received BA in 1940 and MA with Sanskrit and Ardhamagadhi language as his major subjects in 1942 from the University of Bombay.
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Hariprasad Shastri wrote his thesis on the Political and Cultural History of the Maitraka Kingdom of Vallabhi on the basis of inscriptions of the Maitraka dynasty, and was awarded PhD in 1947.
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Hariprasad Shastri served there as the director from 1968 to his retirement in 1979.
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Hariprasad Shastri served as the president of Gujarat Itihas Parishad from 1960 to 1962.
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Hariprasad Shastri died on 9 August 2014 in Navrangpura, Ahmedabad.
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Besides writing above books, Hariprasad Shastri edited several books related to history of Gujarat.
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Hariprasad Shastri had authored or co-authored about 775 research papers.