The issue was resolved during the premiership of Lal Bahadur Shastri, who under great pressure from Nehru's daughter, Indira Gandhi, was made to give assurances that English would continue to be used as the official language as long the non-Hindi speaking states wanted.

Nehru, the man and politician made such a powerful imprint on India that his death on 27 May 1964, left India with no clear political heir to his leadership ( although his daughter was widely expected to succeed him before she turned it down in favour of Shastri ).

Lal Bahadur Shastri ( pronounced ; 2 October 1904 – 11 January 1966 ) was the second Prime Minister of the Republic of India and a leader of the Indian National Congress party.

Shastri was born in Mughal Sarai in the Chandauli district of the United Provinces, British India in British ruled India.

Shastri was educated at East Central Railway Enter college in Mughalsarai and Varanasi.

He was given the title Shastri (" Scholar ").

Shastri was influenced by major Indian nationalist leaders including Tilak and Gandhi.

Shastri, who belonged to the Kayastha caste, dropped his surname Srivastava as it indicated his caste and he was against the caste system, a major principle of the Gandhian movement.

Following India's independence, Shastri was appointed Parliamentary Secretary in his home state, Uttar Pradesh.

In 1951, Shastri was made the General Secretary of the All-India Congress Committee, with Jawaharlal Nehru as the Prime Minister.

While speaking in Parliament on the incident, Nehru stated that he was accepting the resignation because it would set an example in constitutional propriety and not because Shastri was in any way responsible for the accident.

Then Congress Party President K. Kamaraj was instrumental in making Shastri Prime Minister on 9 June.

Shastri, though mild-mannered and soft-spoken, was a Nehruvian socialist and thus held appeal to those wishing to prevent the ascent of conservative right-winger Morarji Desai.

Though he was a socialist, Shastri stated that India cannot have a regimented type of economy.

It was alleged that no post-mortem was done on Shastri, but the Indian government in 2009, claimed it did have a report of a medical investigation conducted by Shastri's personal physician Dr. R. N.

However, in common with Nehru, Shastri was a secularist who refused to mix religion with politics.

Although Shastri had been a cabinet minister for many years in the 1950s, he was poor when he died.

Shastri was known for his honesty and humility throughout his life.

The Shastri Indo-Canadian Institute was named after Shastri due to his role in promoting scholarly activity between India and Canada.

Pandurang Vaijnath Shastri Athavale () ( October 19, 1920 – October 25, 2003 ), also known as Dada-ji (), which literally translates as elder brother in Marathi, was an Indian philosopher, spiritual leader, social reformer and Hinduism reformist, who founded the Swadhyay Movement and the Swadhyay Parivar organization ( Swadhyay Family ) in 1954, a self-knowledge movement based on the Bhagavad Gita, which has spread across nearly 100, 000 villages in India, with over 5 million members.

For his 182 runs and 8 wickets, Shastri was chosen as the man of the series which in this tournament was called ' The Champion of Champions '.

The visitors had chosen to bat, but de Mel ran through the middle order, getting players like Ravi Shastri, Kapil Dev and Dilip Vengsarkar out, and finishing with five for 64.

However, the nuclear programme came to a halt after Lal Bahadur Shastri became the prime minister after Nehru's death.

Shastri as Prime Minister continued Nehru's policies of non-alignment and socialism.

Shastri retained many members of Nehru's Council of Ministers.

Shastri continued Nehru's socialist economic policies with central planning.

Shastri continued Nehru's policy of non-alignment but also built closer relations with the Soviet Union.

Outflanked in the leadership contest after Nehru's death in 1964 by the Nehruvian Lal Bahadur Shastri, Desai remained content to build support within the ranks.

Shastri Yagnapurushdas left the Vadtal Gadi of the Swaminarayan Sampraday to form his own institution, Bochasan Swaminarayan Sanstha or BSS ( now BAPS ) claiming Gunatitanand Swami was the rightful successor to Swaminarayan in 1906.

Pramukh Swami Maharaj () ( born Shantilal Patel, 7 December 1921 ; ordained Shastri Narayanswarupdas ) is the current guru and fifth spiritual successor of Bhagwan Swaminarayan in the BAPS Swaminarayan Sanstha, a Hindu organization.

Shastri, who had just then come out after a year in prison, travelled to Allahabad.

Prime Minister Shastri died in Tashkent due to a heart attack the day after signing the Tashkent Declaration.

While Shastri preferred peace with Pakistan, writing to a friend after the Indo-Pakistani War in 1965 that the problems between both countries should be settled amicably, he had previously displayed a knack for taking quick and decisive actions during the war.

Several educational institutes, Lal Bahadur Shastri National Academy of Administration ( Mussorie, Uttarakhand ) is after his name these were some examples.

The day after the declaration Indian Prime Minister Shastri died of a sudden heart attack.

He was the interim Prime Minister of India twice for thirteen days each: the first time after the death of Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru in 1964, and the second time after the death of Prime Minister Lal Bahadur Shastri in 1966.

* 27 May-Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru dies after a five-month illness ; he is succeeded by Lal Bahadur Shastri.

Even after leaving India, he maintained close ties with the country's leaders and was the official U. S. representative at the funerals of Prime Minister Nehru in 1964, Prime Minister Lal Bahadur Shastri in 1966, and Prime Minister Indira Gandhi in 1984.

The stadium was originally known as Fateh Maidan and was renamed in 1967 after Lal Bahadur Shastri, India's former Prime Minister.

This accelerated after the 1815 murder of an agent of the Gaikwad, named Gangadhar Shastri, at Pandharpur.

The title " Colonel " is his honorary, much-awaited title that he reluctantly accepted after he caught a very contemptible character, Gerald Shastri, in موت کی چٹان (" Maut Ki Chataan "-The Rock of Death ).