Oudh Narayan Shrivastava

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| birth_place =Bhopal, Central Provinces, British India

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| office =Governor of Nagaland

| term_start =5 August 1994

| term_end = 11 November 1996

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|1namedata = S. C. Jamir

| predecessor = V. K. Nayar

| successor= Om Prakash Sharma

| office2 =Governor of Manipur

| term_start2 =23 December 1994

| term_end2 =11 February 1999

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| successor2= Ved Marwah

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| occupation =Civil Servant
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Oudh Narayan Shrivastava (born April 1935) is an Indian former officer of the Indian Police Service who served as the Governor of Nagaland and later the Governor of Manipur. He was awarded the Padma Shri in 1992.{{cite book|author=O.N. Srivastava|title=Life And Times Of Dacoit Queen Putli Bai (and Some Short Stories) (the )|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=43_CNJt4dk4C&pg=PR2|access-date=12 November 2015|year=2010|publisher=Concept Publishing Company|isbn=978-81-8069-676-3|pages=2–}}{{cite web | url=http://manipurassembly.nic.in/html/governor.html | title=FORMER GOVERNORS | publisher=Manipur Assembly | access-date=10 November 2015 | url-status=dead | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160513073454/http://manipurassembly.nic.in/html/governor.html | archive-date=13 May 2016 }}{{cite web | url=http://rajbhavannagaland.gov.in/governor_10.html | title=O.N. Shrivatsva | publisher=Raj Bhavan Nagaland | access-date=10 November 2015}}{{cite web | url=http://www.dashboard-padmaawards.gov.in/?Name=Oudh%20Narayan%20Shrivastava| title=Padma Awards| publisher=Ministry of Home Affairs, Government of India | access-date=10 November 2015}}

Career

Oudh Narayan Shrivastava served with the Indian Police Service for 35 years, including 20 years with the Intelligence Bureau. He spent the last eighteen years in the Northeastern states, after which he was appointed Governor of Manipur and Nagaland, from where he eventually retired.

Shrivastava was directly responsible for the peace accords with the Mizo National Front, Tripura National Volunteers and the All Bodo Students’ Union.{{Cite web|url=https://rajbhavan.nagaland.gov.in/governor_10.html|title=Shri O.N. Shrivatsva}|publisher=Raj Bhavan Nagaland official website}}

Shrivastava has been decorated many times by the IPS and IB and was awarded the Padma Shri in 1992, for outstanding work in the Northeast.

After retirement he took to writing. He has published five anthologies of short and long stories, of which four are in Hindi and one in English, and continues to write.

Bibliography

  • Life And Times Of Dacoit Queen Putli Bai (and Some Short Stories), 1990{{cite book|author=O.N. Srivastava|title=Life And Times Of Dacoit Queen Putli Bai (and Some Short Stories) (the )|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=43_CNJt4dk4C&pg=PR2|access-date=12 November 2015|year=2010|publisher=Concept Publishing Company|isbn=978-81-8069-676-3|pages=2–}}
  • Slave Boy and other stories & Shubho Srishti and other stories, 2017{{cite book|author=O.N. Srivastava|title=Slave Boy and other stories & Shubho Srishti and other stories|url=https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/36190831-slave-boy-and-other-storiesyear=2017|publisher=CinnamonTeal Publishing|isbn=9789386301376|pages=2–}}

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