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{{Infobox judge
| honorific-prefix = [[The Honourable|Hon'ble Mr. Justice]]
| name = Natwarlal Harilal Bhagwati
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| office1 = [[Judge]], [[Supreme Court of India]]
| term_start1 = 8 September 1952
| term_end1 = 6 August 1959
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| office2 = Judge, [[High Court of Bombay]]
| term_start2 = August 1944
| term_end2 = 7 September 1952
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| birth_date = {{Birth date|df=yes|1894|8|7}}
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| death_date = {{death date and age|1970|1|7|1894|8|7|df=yes}}
| death_place = [[Ahmedabad]], India
| father =
| spouse = Saraswati<ref>{{cite book|last1=Reed|first1=Stanley|authorlink1=Stanley Reed (British politician)|title=The Indian And Pakistan Year Book And Who's Who 1950|date=1950|publisher=[[The Times Group|Bennett Coleman and Co. Ltd.]]|page=[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.15206/page/n681 647]|url=https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.15206|accessdate=19 February 2018}}</ref>
| children = 7, including [[Jagdish Bhagwati|Jagdish]],<br/>[[P. N. Bhagwati|Prafullachandra]]
| alma_mater = [[Elphinstone College]], [[Baroda College]]
| office = Vice-Chancellor of Banaras Hindu University
| order = 10th
| termstart = 16 April 1960
| termend = 15 April 1966
| appointer = [[Rajendra Prasad]]
| predecessor = [[Veni Shankar Jha]]
| succeeded = [[Triguna Sen]]
}}

Justice '''Natwarlal Harilal Bhagwati''' (7 August 1894 – 7 January 1970) was a Judge at the [[Supreme Court of India]] from 1952 to 1959 and the [[Vice-Chancellor]] of [[Banaras Hindu University]] from 1960 till 1966.<ref name="Gadbois">{{Cite journal|last=Gadbois Jr.|first=George H.|date=1968|title=Indian Supreme Court Judges: A Portrait|jstor=3053006|journal=[[Law & Society Review]]|volume=3|issue=2/3|pages=317–336|doi=10.2307/3053006}}</ref> Earlier, he had served as the Vice-Chancellor of the [[University of Bombay]] during 1949-51.<ref name="SupremeCourtOfIndia">{{Cite web |url=http://164.100.107.37/judges/bio/5_nhbhagwati.htm |title=Former Judges: Hon'ble Mr. Justice Natwarlal Harilal Bhagwati |date=2014 |website=Supreme Court of India |access-date=2017-12-10}}</ref><ref name="BHU">{{Cite web |url=http://bhu.ac.in/aboutus/history.php |title=Vice Chancellors |date=2013 |website=Banaras Hindu University |access-date=2017-12-10}}</ref> He is also father to the [[economist]] [[Jagdish Bhagwati]] as well as [[P. N. Bhagwati]], the 17th [[Chief Justice of India]].<ref name="JagdishBhagwati" />

==Education==
Bhagwati initially studied at the [[Baroda College]]. He got his [[Bachelor of Arts]] from [[Elphinstone College]] with [[Honours degree|honours]] in 1914 and was a Senior Daxina Fellow of Bombay University for the period 1914-17.<ref name="SupremeCourtOfIndia"/>

==Vice-Chancellorship==
One year into his retirement from the [[Bench (law)|Bench]], Bhagwati was made the [[List of Vice-Chancellors of Banaras Hindu University|Vice-Chancellor of the]] [[Banaras Hindu University]]. Gadbois Jr., a scholar of the Indian Supreme Court's history, suspects this to be for political reasons. It should be noted, as Gadbois Jr. does too, that Bhagwati had previously been the [[Vice-Chancellor]] of the [[University of Bombay]] from November 1949 to that of 1951. This was in conjunction with his judgeship at the [[Bombay High Court]].<ref name="Gadbois"/> Before that, he had been a Senate member of Bombay University in 1947, a Syndicate member of the university and the Vice-President of the Board of Visitors for [[Government Law College, Bombay]] in '48. Bhagwati was also a Professor at the Government Law College in [[Bombay]] from 1929 to 1931.<ref name="SupremeCourtOfIndia"/>

According to a note on the family history on his son [[Jagdish Bhagwati]]'s home page at [[Columbia University]], Natwarlal Bhagwati was a patron of [[Indian classical music]] during his term at BHU where he was instrumental in the award of an [[honorary degree|honorary]] [[doctorate]] by the university to [[Omkarnath Thakur]]. It is also claimed that Justice Bhagwati played a role in the selection of [[Jarava Lal Mehta]] and [[Jayant Narlikar]] to be respectively sent to Germany and [[Cambridge]] for further studies.<ref name="JagdishBhagwati">{{Cite web |url=http://www.columbia.edu/~jb38/Bhagwarti%20and%20Desai%20Family%20Prominent%20Members.docx |title=Jagdish Bhagwati and Padma Desai: Family Members of Prominence |last=Bhagwati |first=Jagdish N. |website=www.columbia.edu/~jb38/ |access-date=2017-12-23}}</ref>

Bhagwati died on 7 January 1970 at his residence in [[Ahmedabad]].<ref>{{cite newspaper|title=Obituary|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=P9oYG7HA76QC&dat=19700109&printsec=frontpage&hl=en|accessdate=6 February 2018|work=The Indian Express|date=9 January 1970|page=4}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|last1=Gadbois, Jr|first1=George H.|title=Judges of the Supreme Court of India: 1950–1989|date=2011|publisher=[[Oxford University Press]]|isbn=9780199088386|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=GIAyDwAAQBAJ|accessdate=6 February 2018}}</ref>

==References==
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