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'''Shankarlal Gangashankar Shastri''' (2 May 1902 – 1 June 1946) was a [[Gujarati language|Gujarati]] literary critic and short-story writer. He was an elder brother of [[Hariprasad Shastri]] and a grandson of [[Vrajlal Shastri]].

==Biography==
Shastri was born into a Sathodara [[Nagar Brahmin]] family on 2 May 1902 at Chunel, a village near [[Nadiad]] in [[Gujarat]], India.<ref name="GVK2006">{{Cite book|title=ગુજરાતી વિશ્વકોશ|last=Shastri|first=Hariprasad|author-link=Hariprasad Shastri|publisher=Gujarat Vishvakosh Trust|editor-last=Thaker|editor-first=Dhirubhai|editor-link=Dhirubhai Thaker|edition=1st|volume=XXI|location=[[Ahmedabad]]|publication-date=April 2006|pages=310|language=gu|trans-title=Gujarati Encyclopedia|oclc=162213102}}</ref> 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]].<ref name="(India)1977">{{cite book|title=Gazetteers: Kheda District|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=v1FuAAAAMAAJ|year=1977|publisher=Directorate of Government Print., Stationery and Publications|page=700|oclc=312722922}}</ref>

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.<ref name="GVK2006"/><ref name="GSK1990">{{Cite book|title=ગુજરાતી સાહિત્યકોશ: અર્વાચીનકાળ|last=Shastri|first=Hariprasad|publisher=[[Gujarati Sahitya Parishad]]|year=1990|edition=1st|volume=II|location=Ahmedabad|page=571|language=gu|trans-title=Encyclopedia of Gujarati Literature: Modern Era|editor-last=Topiwala|editor-first=Chandrakant|editor-link=Chandrakant Topiwala|oclc=312020358}}</ref>

Shastri started his career as a teacher at the government high school of Nadiad and then moved to The Proprietary High School, [[Ahmedabad]], where he taught for four years. After intermittently practising as a lawyer, he was appointed as a professor of Sanskrit and Gujarati in 1932 at Bahauddin College, [[Junagadh]], where he taught for fourteen years.<ref name="GVK2006"/><ref name="GSK1990"/>

He died on 1 June 1946.<ref name="GVK2006"/><ref name="GSK1990"/>

==Works ==
Shastri wrote ''Sahityane Ovarethi'' (1938) in two volumes; volume one presents observations and assessments of some prominent Gujarati writers and volume two contains articles on medieval and modern writers. He also wrote ''Sahityadrashtane'' (1941) in two volumes; the first volume one explains general literary topics and the second presents a study of Gujarati writers from [[Premanand Bhatt|Premanand]] to Janmashankar Buch 'Lalit'.<ref name="GVK2006"/><ref name="GSK1990"/>

''Panadani'' (1941) is a collection of short stories. Shastri edited and published his grandfather Vrajlal Shastri's unpublished book ''Rasaganga'' in 1934.<ref name="GVK2006"/><ref name="GSK1990"/>

==See also==
* [[List of Gujarati-language writers]]

==References==
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==External links==
* [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.411668/mode/2up ''Sahityane Ovarethi''] at [[Internet Archive]]

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