Shankarlal Gangashankar Shastri (2 May 1902 – 1 June 1946) was a Gujarati literary critic and short-story writer.
Shastri was born into a Sathodara Nagar Brahmin family on 2 May 1902 at Chunel, a village near Nadiad in Bombay Presidency, British India.
His younger brother Hariprasad Shastri was also a Gujarati writer, historian and indologist.
[1][3] Shastri started his career as a teacher at the government high school of Nadiad and then moved to The Proprietary High School, Ahmedabad, where he taught for four years.
After intermittently practising as a lawyer, he was appointed a professor of Sanskrit and Gujarati in 1932 at Bahauddin College, Junagadh, where he taught for fourteen years.