Hari Shanker Srivastava was born on 1 January 1921. He was an Indian historian. He was educated at Ewing Christian College, Allahabad (1937–39), and Allahabad University (1939–43). He is a Fellow of the Royal Asiatic Society and a Fellow of the Institute of Historical Studies, Calcutta.
He was the First Chairperson of the Political Science Department, Deen Dayal Upadhyay Gorakhpur University, Gorakhpur (1958–62). He also acted as the editor of various historical journals in India. He also published short stories and poems in best-selling magazines of his youth time. He had been invited to deliver discussions and many lectures on radio and television from the Gorakhpur Station. He contributed to the Encyclopedia of Hinduism.
