B. N. Rau

Benegal Narsing Rau ( born February 26, 1887 in Mangalore, Karnataka, † November 30, 1953 in Zurich ) was an Indian lawyer, the essential and on a review of the Indian Code and after 1945 in the formulation of the constitutions of India in the 1930s Burma participated. From February 1952 until his death he worked as a judge at the International Court of Justice.

Life

Benegal Narsing Rau was born in 1887 in Mangalore and studied at the Universities of Madras and Cambridge. In 1910 he joined the Indian Civil Service and worked as a legal advisor to the Legislative Assembly and the Government of the State of Assam. In the years 1934/1935 he worked as a consultant in the legal department of the Government of India, from 1935 to 1937, he worked much on a revision of the Indian Act with the book. In 1939 he was appointed Judge of the Calcutta High Court, he held this office until 1944. In the years 1944/1945 he was Prime Minister of the princely state of Jammu and Kashmir. After the end of World War II, he was from 1946 to 1949 as a consultant in the Constituent Assembly of India and in 1947 as adviser to the Constituent Assembly of Burma instrumental in the drafting of the constitutions of both countries.

Benegal Narsing Rau led the Indian delegation to the fourth, fifth and sixth session of the General Assembly of the United Nations ( UN) and worked from 1949 to 1953 as a permanent representative of his native country at the UN. In 1950 he was a representative of India Chairman of the United Nations Security Council. In addition, he was a member from 1949 to 1951 of the International Law Commission of the United Nations, to which he was elected Vice President. After he temporarily was considered a possible successor to Trygve Lie, Office of the UN Secretary-General, he was established in December 1951 as the first Indian Judge at the International Court of Justice. He began his work in The Hague in February 1952 but died in 1953 in Zurich, and therefore before the expiration of his nine -year tenure as scheduled. His successor was Muhammad Zafrullah Khan from Pakistan.

Awards

Benegal Narsing Rau was knighted in 1938 and received in 1948 from the University of Delhi as well as 1951 by Oberlin College honorary doctorate.

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