Rau, Sir Benegal Narsing

Rau, Sir Benegal Narsing

▪ Indian jurist
born February 26, 1887, Karkala or Mangalore, Mysore [now Karnātaka], India
died November 29, 1953, Zürich, Switz.

      one of the foremost Indian jurists of his time. He helped to draft the constitutions of Burma (Myanmar) in 1947 and India in 1950. As India's representative on the United Nations Security Council (1950–52), he was serving as president of the council when it recommended armed assistance to South Korea (June 1950). Later he was a member of the Korean War cease-fire commission.

      A graduate of the Universities of Madras and Cambridge, Rau entered the Indian civil service in 1910. After revising the entire Indian statutory code (1935–37), he was knighted (1938) and made judge of the Bengal High Court, Calcutta (1939). His writings on Indian law include a noted study on constitutional precedents as well as articles on human rights in India. He served briefly (1944–45) as prime minister of Jammu and Kashmir state. From February 1952 until his death, he was a judge of the Permanent Court of International Justice, The Hague. Before his election to the court, he was regarded as a candidate for secretary-general of the UN.

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