Anant Maral Shastri
Anant Maral Shastri | |
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Acharya Narenda Dev with Anant Maral Shastri in Indore | |
| Born | 1912 |
| Died | 1999 (aged 86–87) India |
| Nationality | Indian |
| Education | Kashi Vidyapeeth, Varanasi |
| Alma mater | Kashi Vidyapeeth |
| Occupations | |
| Known for | Role in India's independence movement, literary contributions, cultural administration |
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| Political party | Indian National Congress |
| Movement | Indian Independence Movement |
Anant Maral Shastri (1912–1999) was an Indian freedom fighter, journalist, literary figure, poet, Sanskrit scholar, linguist and administrator. At a very young age, he left Ambikapur, now in Chhattisgarh, and joined Kashi Vidyapeeth, a nationalist institution of learning in Varanasi, where he found a Guru in Acharya Narendra Dev, a great freedom fighter, scholar and teacher.
His grand father, Pandit Lal Bihari Sharma, was the official tutor of Raja Bahadur Raghunath Saran Singh Deo, Maharaja of Sarguja (1879–1917), who was the great grand father of Madaneswar Saran Singh Deo, who became Chief Secretary of Madhya Pradesh.
Pandit Lal Bihari Sharma had a huge landed property in Ambikapur, Sarguja, which his son Anant Maral, who was the only son and heir to that property, just left it when he joined Kashi Vidyapeeth and the Freedom Movement at a young age. He never returned to claim it after Independence.