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'''Behari Lal Gupta''' {{postnominals|country=GBR|CSI}} was a member of the [[Indian Civil Service]] and a politician.

==Early life and education==
Gupta was born in [[Calcutta]] into a Vaidya family. His parents were Chandrasekhar Gupta and Rajeshwari, who was the elder sister of Narendranath Sen, editor of the ''[[Indian Mirror]]'', the weekly journal of the [[Brahmo Samaj]].

His early education was at [[Hare School]] and [[Presidency College, Calcutta]]. He then proceeded with his childhood friends [[Romesh Dutt|R.C. Dutt]] and [[Surendranath Banerjee]] to England for higher studies. In England he joined [[University College, London]] and eventually passed the Open Competitive Service Examinations to become the third Indian to join the [[Indian Civil Service]] in 1869 coming out to India in 1871. He belonged to the famous batch of 1869 which produced four Indians in the Indian Civil Service, including R.C. Dutt, himself, Surendranath Banerjee and Sripad Babaji Thakur.<ref name="lifeandworksofromeshchunderdutt">J. N. Gupta, ''Life and Works of Romesh Chunder Dutt'', (1911); The first Indian to enter the Indian Civil Service was Satyendranath Tagore, the second eldest son of Maharshi Debendranath Tagore, who joined the service in 1863, coming out to India in 1864. The batch of 1869 set new standards of excellence for other Indian students to perform well in the ICS, but Tagore's entry into the service six years earlier acted as an inspiration for future generations of Indian students who aspired to be members of the covenanted civil service.</ref> He held Degrees of Honour in Sanskrit and Persian. {{cn|date=March 2017}} He was also called to the Bar by the [[Middle Temple|Honourable Society of Middle Temple]] on 6 June 1871.<ref name="middletemple">{{Cite web |url=http://hosted.law.wisc.edu/wordpress/sharafi/files/2010/07/Middle-5.01.pdf |title=South Asians at the Inns: Middle Temple, 1863-1944 |access-date=4 March 2017 |archive-date=28 July 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180728132012/http://hosted.law.wisc.edu/wordpress/sharafi/files/2010/07/Middle-5.01.pdf |url-status=dead }}</ref>

He was a member of the Brahmo Sammilan Samaj <ref name="brahmosadharansamaj">[http://www.thebrahmosamaj.net/samajes/sammilan.html Brahmo Sammilan Samaj]</ref> in Bhowanipore, Calcutta.

==Career==
His career in the civil service was distinguished: he became the first Indian Chief Presidency Magistrate and Coroner of Calcutta in 1872, an appointment that sparked off a serious debate on the legitimacy of an Indian civilian being appointed to such a senior position in the British Indian administration, leading to the [[Ilbert Bill]] controversy of 1883.<ref name="lifeandworks">Gupta, ''Life and Works of Romesh Chunder Dutt''; This matter was later taken up by Sir Courtney Ilbert, the Law Member of the Viceroy's Executive Council, who in his famous Ilbert Bill report passed in 1883 recommended that Indian judges of a certain rank should be given considerable powers to try British subjects of the Crown settled or based in India. A hostile Anglo-Indian press and opinion challenged the recommendations leading to a fierce debate on the right of Indians to be appointed to such high judicial and administrative posts, leading eventually to the scaling down of the recommended powers of the Indian judges in 1884.</ref>

He was also a District and Sessions Judge, Remembrancer and Superintendent of Legal Affairs, Bengal, Member, Bengal Legislative Council, and finally a Judge (''offtg.'') of the High Court of Calcutta from where he retired in 1907.{{cn|date=March 2017}}

==Post retirement==
After retirement he was appointed as Law and Justice Member in [[Baroda]] in 1909 and then [[Dewan]] in 1912. In 1914 he travelled with His Highness, Maharaja [[Sayajirao Gaekwad III]], Maharaja of Baroda to Europe.{{citation needed|date=November 2011}} He was appointed CSI in the [[1914 New Year Honours]].

==Awards==
*Durbar Medals (1903), (1912)

==References==
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