Sarat Kumar Ghosh

Sir Sarat Kumar Ghosh
Black and white photographic portrait of Sarath Grosh, indian prince, sitting in a chair in a room in Chicago. Picture has text written in write color at the right edge, saying: "Prince Sarath Ghosh of India"
Black and white photographic portrait of Sarath Grosh, indian prince, sitting in a chair in a room in Chicago. Picture has text written in write color at the right edge, saying: "Prince Sarath Ghosh of India"
Born3 July 1879
Calcutta, Bengal Presidency, British India
Died8 January 1963 (aged 83)
Calcutta, West Bengal, India
Occupation(s)Civil servant, Judge
Spouse(s)Niraja Nalini Dé, Lady Ghosh

Sir Sarat Kumar Ghosh or Ghose, ICS (3 July 1879 – 8 January 1963) was an Indian civil servant and a jurist.[1][2]

Background and education

He was the son of Rai Bahadur Tarini Kumar Ghosh, Inspector General of Registration of the Government of Bengal. He was a student of Mitra Institution, Calcutta and Presidency College, Calcutta, where he earned first-class honours.[2] He was married to Niraj Nalini Ghosh (née De), the third daughter of Brajendranath De, the 8th Indian member of the Indian Civil Service. After his marriage he went to Trinity College, Cambridge where he successfully took the Open Competitive Service Examination, joining the judicial wing of the service.[3] He joined the ICS in 1903.[4] He was also called to the Bar by The Honourable Society of the Inner Temple.[5]

Career

He was the Additional Judge of Chittagong, District Judge of Comilla and then the District Judge of Hooghly in 1929. Later, he appointed as a Puisne Judge of the Calcutta High Court. He was conferred a knighthood in 1938.[6] He became the Chief Justice of the Indian Princely State of Jaipur and then the last Chief Justice of the Indian Princely State of Kashmir from 29 March 1946 to 29 March 1948. He was one of the last officials of the former regime in Kashmir to have left the state just before the first Indo-Pakistan war broke out in 1948.[7] At the time of India's independence he became the Interim Chief Justice of the High Court of Rajasthan. He was also first Chairperson of the Rajasthan Public Service Commission.[8]

Later life

After returning from Rajasthan, the Government of West Bengal appointed him as Judge of a one-man Tribunal to deal with cases involving communist insurgents in the state.

Through the 1950s he was a Steward of the Royal Calcutta Turf Club, a position he retained until the end of his life.[9]

References

  1. ^ Burke, Sir Bernard, ed. (1939). Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knighthood (97th ed.). Burke's Peerage & Gentry. p. 2783.
  2. ^ a b "Obituary: Sir Sarat Ghose". The Times. 9 January 1963. p. 12.
  3. ^ "Cambridge University Records (GHS899SK)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
  4. ^ Great Britain India Office, The India List and India Office List, 1905, (India Office, Great Britain, Published by Harrison, 1905)
  5. ^ Sarat Kumar Ghosh, Justice: A Journal of the West Bengal Judicial Service Association, July 1959, p. 134
  6. ^ London Gazette, 22 July 1938
  7. ^ Former Chief Justices and Judges of Jammu & Kashmir High Court
  8. ^ Rajasthan Public Service Commission
  9. ^ Royal Calcutta Turf Club Archived 5 July 2008 at the Wayback Machine