Raja Ram Shastri (also Rajaram Shastri) (4 June 1904 - 21 August 1991) was an Indian
educationist
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who was elected in the
1971 Indian general election
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as a
Member of Parliament
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(MP) from
Varanasi
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during the
5th Lok Sabha
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, the lower house of the
Parliament of India
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. He was a professor and subsequently Vice-Chancellor of the
Kashi Vidyapeeth from 1964 - 1971.
He was the grand son of
Rai Bahadur Thakur Jaiswal.
He served as a member of first
National Commission on Labour
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History
The first National Commission on Labour was set up on 24 December 1966 under the Chairmanship of Justice P.B. Gajendragadkar. The ...
and received
Padma Vibhushan
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in 1991, the second highest civilian honor of
India
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.
He died in New Delhi on 21 August 1991, aged 87.
References
Recipients of the Padma Vibhushan in literature & education
20th-century Indian educational theorists
1904 births
1991 deaths
India MPs 1971–1977
Lok Sabha members from Uttar Pradesh
Politicians from Varanasi
India MPs 1952–1957
Politicians from Kanpur
Indian National Congress politicians from Uttar Pradesh
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