page_title: Hariprasad Shastri
section_title: Early Life
hierarchical_section_title: Hariprasad Shastri / Early Life
caption_attribution_description: English: Gangashankar Vrajlal Shastri, father of Hariprasad Shastri.
context_page_description: 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. He spent much of his career at the B. J. Institute of Learning and Research, Ahmedabad as a lecturer, professor, deputy director and then as director.
context_section_description: Hariprasad Shastri was born on 17 October 1919 at Malataj, a village near Petlad. He was the youngest son of Gangashankar Shastri, a physician and ritualist. His elder brother, Shankarlal Shastri, was a professor of Sanskrit at the Bahauddin College, Junagadh and a Gujarati literary critic. His grandfather, Vrajlal Kalidas Shastri (1825–1892) 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 (1812–1885).
  As he pursued higher studies, his PhD guide, Rasiklal Parikh served as a key source of inspiration. Shastri was also influenced by the views of Mahatma Gandhi, Swami Vivekananda and Bal Gangadhar Tilak.
  He married Shridevi Bhatt, daughter of an educationalist Karunashankar Kuberji Bhatt, in 1947. They had a son.
caption: Gangashankar Shastri, father of Hariprasad Shastri
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