Sir Benegal Narsing Rau, born on 26 February 1887, Karkala or Mangalore, Mysore [now Karnataka], was one of
the foremost Indian jurists of his time. He helped 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 (1939–44)
of the Bengal High Court at Calcutta (Kolkata). His writings on Indian law
include a noted study on constitutional precedents as well as
articles on human rights in India. Rau served briefly (1944–45) as prime
minister of Jammu and Kashmir state. In 1949 he became India’s permanent
representative to the UN. 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 United Nations.
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