Keshavram Kashiram Shastri

Keshavram Kashiram Shastri
Born	28 July 1905 Mangrol, Gujarat, India
Died	September 9, 2006 (Aged 101) Ahmedabad, India
Organization	Vishva Hindu Parishad
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Keshavram Kashiram Shastri (born 28 July 1905) was the founding leader of the Vishva Hindu Parishad.^{[ citation needed ]}

Biography

Shastri completed his school up to matriculation (conclusion of secondary education) and then was taught Sanskrit grammar, poetry, and Vedānta by his father, Kashiram Karashanajī Shastri. He spent 1923 as a teacher in Caṁdavāṇā, a village near Mangrol, Gujarat, following which he served as a part-time teacher in his father's Sanskrit school. He then spent 11 years as an assistant teacher in Coronation High School in Mangrol.^{[ citation needed ]}

In 1936 he moved to Ahmedabad and became an editor of Prajābaṁdhu, a Gujarati weekly, and in the following year joined the Gujarat Vernacular Society as a researcher. In 1939, he began teaching postgraduate courses on Apabhraṃśa and Old Gujarati literature. In 1944, the University of Bombay gave him permission to give M.A. exams, and in 1955 gave permission to advise PhD students and taught at the university for 42 years. He also served as an adjunct professor at Balabhai Damodardas Women's College in Ahmedabad from 1961 to 1971. Since 1960, he served as an honorary professor at the B. J. Institute of Learning in Ahmedabad.^{[ citation needed ]}

He was a mentor to the current Prime Minister of India- Narendra Modi. ^[1]

He died September 9, 2006, in Ahmedabad at the age of 101. ^[1]

References

1. "Modi's mentors: KK Shastri, the scholar who helped save the Gujarati language - Firstpost". Firstpost. 13 March 2014. Retrieved 18 March 2016.