Shankarlal Shastri

Shankarlal Gangashankar Shastri (2 May 1902 – 1 June 1946) was a Gujarati literary critic and short-story writer. He was an elder brother of Hariprasad Shastri and a grandson of Vrajlal Shastri. Shastri was born into a Sathodara Nagar Brahmin family on 2 May 1902 at Chunel, a village near Nadiad in Bombay Presidency, British India. He was the second son of Gangashankar Shastri, a physician and ritualist. His younger brother Hariprasad Shastri was also a Gujarati writer, historian and indologist. Shastri completed his primary education in Malataj and his secondary education in Sojitra. After passing his matriculation in 1919, he joined Gujarat College, from which he received his Bachelor of Arts in 1923 and Master of Arts in 1925 with Sanskrit and Gujarati subjects. He received a Bachelor of Laws degree in 1929.