# Shriman Narayan

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Indian politician

Shriman Narayan Governor of Gujarat In office 26 December 1967 – 16 March 1973 Personal details Born 1912 (1912)

**Shriman Narayan** (1912 - 1974[1]) was ex-governor of the [Indian](/source/India) state of [Gujarat](/source/Gujarat).[2] He was a great supporter of the [Mahatma Gandhi](/source/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.[3]

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

## See also

- [Governors of Gujarat](/source/Governors_of_Gujarat)

## References

1. **[^](#cite_ref-ws_1-0)** ["Governors of Gujarat"](http://www.worldstatesmen.org/India_states.html#Gujarat). worldstatesmen.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-Gov_2-0)** ["Shriman Narayan"](http://www.rajbhavan.gujarat.gov.in/uniquepage.asp?id_pk=62). Rajbhavan Gujarat (Govt. of Gujarat). Retrieved 16 May 2012.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-3)** ["Members Bioprofile"](http://loksabhaph.nic.in/writereaddata/biodata_1_12/581.htm). *loksabhaph.nic.in*. Retrieved 10 July 2021.

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