Background
Hiralal Shastri was born at Jobner in Jaipur District in a peasant family.
Hiralal Shastri was born at Jobner in Jaipur District in a peasant family.
He completed his early education in Jobner.
He was in office from 30 March 1949 to 5 January 1951. Hiralal passed the degree of Sahitya Shastri in 1920. In 1921, he stood first in the Bachelor of Arts examination from Maharaja"s College, Jaipur.
He joined Jaipur State Service in 1921 and later became Secretary in the Home and Foreign Departments.
He resigned from the service in 1927. In 1929, Hiralal Shastri selected a remote and backward village Banasthali, 72 km from Jaipur and founded "Jeevan Kutir" there.
Here he trained a group of social workers and endeavoured to implement a programme of rural reconstruction. From early childhood Hiralal Shastri had a burning desire to go to some village and devote his life to the service of the downtrodden.
Though he joined Jaipur State Service in 1921 and had a meteoric rise to become Secretary in the Home and Foreign Departments, he resigned the same in 1927.
While in administrative service he displayed qualities of hard work, efficiency and fearlessness. In 1929, in fulfillment of his childhood resolve, Hiralal Shastri selected a remote and backward village Banasthali, 45 miles from Jaipur and founded "Jeevan Kutir" there. Here he trained a band of dedicated social workers and endeavoured to implement a programme of rural reconstruction.
These workers later became the heralds of political awakening in many of the Rajputana States.
In 1937 he joined Jaipur Rajya Praja Mandal and he was twice elected General Secretary and twice President of lieutenant In 1947 he was appointed General Secretary of the All India States Peoples Conference.
In the same year he was elected to the Constituent Assembly. On the installation of representative Government in Jaipur State on 27 March 1948 Hiralal Shastri became the Prime Minister of the state and when Rajasthan State was formed on 30 March 1949 he became its first Chief Minister.
He took initiatives to integrate the erstwhile princely states into an effective modern administration.
He died on 28 December 1974.
He resigned on 5 January 1951 and later became a member of the Second Lok Sabha.