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People with the surname Shastri

  • Heera Lal Shastri
    Heera Lal Shastri
    Pandit Hiralal Shastri was an Indian politician and the first chief minister of Rajasthan state in northern India. He was in office from March 30, 1949 to January 5, 1951.-Early life:...

     (born 1899), Indian politician and the first chief minister of Rajasthan state
  • Keshavram Kashiram Shastri
    Keshavram Kashiram Shastri
    Keshavram Kashiram Shastri was born on 28 July 1905 at Mangarol in Junagadh district of Gujarat. He was the founding leader of the Vishwa Hindu Parishad....

     (born 1905), founding leader of Vishwa Hindu Parishad
  • Lal Bahadur Shastri
    Lal Bahadur Shastri
    Lal Bahadur Srivastava Shastri was the second Prime Minister of the Republic of India and a significant figure in the Indian independence movement.-Early life:...

     (born 1904), third Prime Minister of the Republic of India
  • Narayani Shastri
    Narayani shastri
    Narayani Shastri is an Indian television and theatre actress.Shastri was educated at Symbiosis College in Pune, and later moved to Government Law College in Mumbai.Narayani had dated boyfriend Gaurav Chopra.-Career:...

     (born 1978), television and theatre actress
  • Narendra Shastri
    Narendra Shastri
    Narendra Dev Pandit Shastri Arya Samaj missionary sent to Bali during the 1950s.-References:...

     (born 1920), missionary sent to Bali in the 1950s
  • Pandurang Shastri Athavale
    Pandurang Shastri Athavale
    Shastri Pandurang Vaijnath Athavale , also known as Dada-ji , which literally translates as elder brother in Marathi, was an Indian philosopher, spiritual leader, social reformer and Hinduism reformist, who founded the Swadhyay Movement and the Swadhyay Parivar organization in 1954, a...

     (born 1920), Indian philosopher also known as Dada-ji
  • Prakash Vir Shastri
    Prakash Vir Shastri
    Pandit Prakash Vir Shastri was a noted Member of the Parliament of India .Born on December 30, 1923 as Om Prakash Tyagi in the village of Rehra to a sepoy father, he earned his Shastri degree from Banaras Hindu University.- Career :Shastri was born in the village of Rehra in the J.P...

     (born 1923), noted Member of the Parliament of India (Sansad)
  • Ram Shastri
    Ram Shastri
    Ram Shastri Prabhune was the Chief Justice in the apex court of the Maratha Empire in the latter half of the 18th century, during the heyday of that empire. He is best remembered for having passed strictures against the sitting Peshwa of the time for instigating murder...

    , 18th century Chief Justice in the apex court of the Maratha Empire
  • Ravi Shastri
    Ravi Shastri
    Ravishankar Jayadritha Shastri is a former Indian cricketer and captain. He was an all–rounder who batted right-handed and bowled left arm spin. His international career started when he was 18 years old and lasted for 12 years...

     (born 1962), former Indian Test cricketer
  • Satya Vrat Shastri
    Satya Vrat Shastri
    Satya Vrat Shastri is a highly decorated Sanskrit scholar, writer, grammarian and poet from India. He has written three Mahakavyas, three Khandakavyas, one Prabandhakavyas and one Patrakavya and five works in critical writing in Sanskrit...

    , Sanskrit scholar
  • Shukraraj Shastri (born 1894), pre-eminent Nepalese intellectual
  • Sivanath Sastri
    Sivanath Sastri
    Sivanath Sastri was a scholar, religious reformer, educator, writer and historian...

     (born 1847), scholar, religious reformer, educator, writer and historian
  • Syama Sastri
    Syama Sastri
    Syama Sastri is one of the most renowned composers of Carnatic music. He was the eldest of the so-called Trinity of Carnatic music, Tyagaraja and Muthuswami Dikshitar being the other two. A major source for his biography is a chapter in P. Sambamoorthy's book, Great Composers, 69-94...

     (born 1762), among the most renowned composers of Carnatic music
  • Vagish Shastri
    Vagish Shastri
    Vagish Shastri is an international Sanskrit grammarian, eminent linguist, Tantric and yogi. He was born in the city of Khurai, in Madhya Pradesh in 1934. His primary education was in Khurai, followed by his education in Vrindavan and Benaras...

     (born 1934), Sanskrit Grammarian, who discovered a short cut way of learning Sanskrit
    Sanskrit
    Sanskrit , is a historical Indo-Aryan language and the primary liturgical language of Hinduism, Jainism and Buddhism.Buddhism: besides Pali, see Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit Today, it is listed as one of the 22 scheduled languages of India and is an official language of the state of Uttarakhand...

  • Vishnu Kant Shastri
    Vishnu Kant Shastri
    Vishnu Kant Shastri was an Indian politician who served as the governor of Uttar Pradesh and Himachal Pradesh. He was also an academician, scholar, poet, philosopher, author, critic, orator, editor and administrator....

    (born 1929), Indian politician who served as the governor of Uttar Pradesh and Himachal Pradesh
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