Sarat Kumar Ghosh

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{{Infobox person
| name = Sir Sarat Kumar Ghosh
| image_size =250px
| image =
| birth_date = 3 July 1879
| birth_place = [[Calcutta]], [[Bengal Presidency]], [[British Raj|British India]]
| death_date = 8 January 1963 (aged 83)
| death_place = [[Calcutta]], [[West Bengal]], India
| occupation = Civil servant, Judge
| spouse = Niraja Nalini Dé, Lady Ghosh
}}

'''Sir Sarat Kumar Ghosh''' or '''Ghose''', [[Indian Civil Service|ICS]] (3 July 1879 – 8 January 1963) was an Indian civil servant and a [[jurist]].<ref name="burkewwii">{{cite book |title= [[Burke's Peerage|Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knighthood]]|publisher=Burke's Peerage & Gentry |editor= Burke, Sir Bernard |editor-link=Bernard Burke |edition= 97th |year=1939 |page=2783 |ref=Burke }}</ref><ref name="times">{{cite news |title= Obituary: Sir Sarat Ghose |work=[[The Times]] |date= 9 January 1963|page=12 }}</ref>

==Background and education==
He was the son of [[Rai Bahadur]] Tarini Kumar Ghosh, [[Inspector General]] of [[Civil registration|Registration]] of the [[Government]] of [[Bengal]]. He was a student of Mitra Institution, Calcutta and [[Presidency College, Calcutta]], where he earned first-class honours.<ref name="times"/> 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.<ref name="Cambridge University Records">{{acad|id=GHS899SK|name= Cambridge University Records}}</ref> He joined the [[Indian Civil Service (British India)|ICS]] in 1903.<ref name="indiaofficelistandindiaofficerecords">[https://books.google.com/books?id=3VQTAAAAYAAJ&pg=RA1-PA540&lpg=RA1-PA540&dq=Kiran+Chandra+De&source=web&ots=emIDY4pxS4&sig=RwD0V057Pij7AsfxQNv6hTCm22I&hl=en&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=5&ct=result#PRA1-PA607,M1/ Great Britain India Office, ''The India List and India Office List, 1905'', (India Office, Great Britain, Published by Harrison, 1905)]</ref> He was also called to the [[Barrister|Bar]] by [[Inner Temple|The Honourable Society of the Inner Temple]].<ref name="justice">Sarat Kumar Ghosh, Justice: A Journal of the West Bengal Judicial Service Association, July 1959, p. 134</ref>

==Career==
He was the Additional [[Judge]] of [[Chittagong]], [[District Courts of India|District Judge]] of [[Comilla]] and then the District Judge of [[Hooghly District|Hooghly]] in 1929. Later, he appointed as a [[Puisne Judge]] of the [[Calcutta High Court]]. He was conferred a [[knight]]hood in 1938.<ref>[http://www.london-gazette.co.uk/issues/34534/pages/4740 London Gazette, 22 July 1938]</ref> 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.<ref name=formerchiefjusticesandjudgesofjammu&kashmirhighcourt>[http://www.jkhighcourt.nic.in/ Former Chief Justices and Judges of Jammu & Kashmir High Court]</ref> At the time of India's independence he became the Interim Chief Justice of the High Court of Rajasthan. He was also Chairman of the Rajasthan Public Service Commission.<ref name=rajasthanpublicservicecommission>[http://www.rpsc.gov.in/Profile.htm Rajasthan Public Service Commission]</ref>

==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.<ref name=royalcalcuttaturfclub>[http://www.rctconline.com/appendix4.1.htm Royal Calcutta Turf Club] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080705083427/http://www.rctconline.com/appendix4.1.htm |date=5 July 2008 }}</ref>

==References==
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==External links==
*[http://www.rctconline.com/ Official Website of Royal Calcutta Turf Club]

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