{{Short description|Indian politician}} {{Use dmy dates|date=August 2019}} {{Infobox officeholder | name = Shriman Narayan | image = Shriman Narayan Lok Sabha photo.jpg | birth_date = {{birth date text|1912}} | office = Governor of Gujarat | term_start = 26 December 1967 | term_end = 16 March 1973 }} '''Shriman Narayan''' (1912 - 1974<ref name="ws">{{cite web|title=Governors of Gujarat|url=http://www.worldstatesmen.org/India_states.html#Gujarat|publisher=worldstatesmen}}</ref>) was ex-governor of the [[India]]n state of [[Gujarat]].<ref name=Gov>{{cite web|title=Shriman Narayan|url=http://www.rajbhavan.gujarat.gov.in/uniquepage.asp?id_pk=62|publisher=Rajbhavan Gujarat (Govt. of Gujarat)|accessdate=16 May 2012}}</ref> He was a great supporter of the [[Mahatma Gandhi]]. He was a member of the first Lok Sabha of independent India.

He had an eminent academic career. He later undertook an educational tour and visited Hawaii, China, Japan, United States of America, Great Britain, Belgium, France, Switzerland, Germany, Austria, Czechoslovakia, Italy, Greece, Turkey and Pakistan. He was detained for 18 months during 1942 Quit India Movement. He held a number of posts in various committees, State Planning Boards, academic councils in universities, etc. Espousing the spirit of the Gandhian economic thinking, he published ''Gandhian Plan of Economic Development for India'' in 1944. The plan laid more emphasis on agriculture. For industrialization, he promoted it only to the level of promoting cottage and village-level industries, unlike the National Planning Committee (NPC) and the Bombay plan which supported a leading role for the heavy and large industries. He favoured a decentralised economic structure and self-contained villages. He also published books on poems and essays such as ''Fountain of Life'' in 1933, ''Roti ka Rag,'' etc.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Members Bioprofile|url=http://loksabhaph.nic.in/writereaddata/biodata_1_12/581.htm|access-date=2021-07-10|website=loksabhaph.nic.in}}</ref>

Shriman Narayan Agarwal was also an author and wrote famous article "Aap bhale to jag bhala".

==See also== * [[Governors of Gujarat]]

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