Oudh Narayan Shrivastava (born April 1935) is an Indian former officer of the

Indian Police Service The Indian Police Service ( IPS) is a civil service under the All India Services. It replaced the Indian Imperial Police in 1948, a year after India became independent from the British Raj. Along with the Indian Administrative Service (IAS ...

who served as the Governor of Nagaland and later the

Governor of Manipur The governor of Manipur is the nominal head and representative of the president of India in the state of Manipur. The governor is appointed by the president for a term of five years. The current and 17th governor of Manipur is La. Ganesan from A ...

. He was awarded the

Padma Shri Padma Shri (IAST: ''padma śrī''), also spelled Padma Shree, is the fourth-highest Indian honours system, civilian award of the Republic of India, after the Bharat Ratna, the Padma Vibhushan and the Padma Bhushan. Instituted on 2 January 1954, ...

in 1992.

Career

Oudh Narayan Shrivastava served with the

for 35 years, including 20 years with the

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. He spent the last eighteen years in the Northeastern states, after which he was appointed Governor of

Manipur Manipur () ( mni, Kangleipak) is a state in Northeast India, with the city of Imphal as its capital. It is bounded by the Indian states of Nagaland to the north, Mizoram to the south and Assam to the west. It also borders two regions of Myanm ...

and

Nagaland Nagaland () is a landlocked state in the northeastern region of India. It is bordered by the Indian states of Arunachal Pradesh to the north, Assam to the west, Manipur to the south and the Sagaing Region of Myanmar to the east. Its capital cit ...

, from where he eventually retired. Shrivastava was directly responsible for the peace accords with the

Mizo National Front The Mizo National Front ( MNF) is a regional political party in Mizoram, India. MNF emerged from the Mizo National Famine Front, which was formed by Pu Laldenga to protest against the inaction of the Indian central government towards the famin ...

Tripura National Volunteers Tripura National Volunteers (also Tribal National Volunteers or Tripura National Volunteer Force) was a Tripuri nationalist militant group in the Tripura region of India that launched an armed struggle in the early 1980s to separate Tripura f ...

and the All Bodo Students’ Union. Shrivastava has been decorated many times by the IPS and IB and was awarded the Padma Shri in 1992, for outstanding work in the Northeast. After retirement he took to writing. He has published five

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of short and long stories, of which four are in

Hindi Hindi (Devanāgarī: or , ), or more precisely Modern Standard Hindi (Devanagari: ), is an Indo-Aryan language spoken chiefly in the Hindi Belt region encompassing parts of northern, central, eastern, and western India. Hindi has been de ...

and one in English, and continues to write.

Bibliography

* Life And Times Of Dacoit Queen Putli Bai (and Some Short Stories), 1990 * Slave Boy and other stories & Shubho Srishti and other stories, 2017

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Shrivastava, Oudh Narayan 1935 births Living people Indian police officers Governors of Manipur Governors of Nagaland Recipients of the Padma Shri in civil service