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{{Short description|Bengali Indian jurist}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=August 2015}}
{{Use Indian English|date=August 2015}}
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| honorific_prefix = Justice
| name = Sir Pramada Charan Banerjee
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| image = Pramadacharan_Banerjee.jpg
| successor =
| office1 = [[Allahabad High Court#Former Justices|Justice, Allahabad High Court]]
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| birth_date = 10 April 1848
| birth_place =
| death_date = 22 March 1930
| death_place = [[Allahabad]], Uttar Pradesh<ref name="times"/>
| education = Graduation, LL.B
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'''Sir Pramada Charan Banerjee'''{{efn|also transliterated as Pramoda Churn Banerji, Bannerji, Bannerjee, Banarji, or Banarjee}} (10 April 1848 – 22 March 1930) was a [[Bengali people|Bengali]] Indian jurist of the [[British Raj]] era in the [[Allahabad High Court]] and also [[Vice-Chancellor]] of the [[University of Allahabad]].<ref name="times">{{cite news |title= Sir P. C. Banarji|work=[[The Times]] |date=24 March 1930 |page=19 }}</ref>

== Biography ==
Banerjee was born on 10 April 1848. He lived in [[Uttarpara]] and attended [[Presidency College, Kolkata|Presidency College, Calcutta]] and the [[University of Calcutta]], from which he respectively obtained [[Bachelor of Arts|B.A.]] and [[Bachelor of Laws|B.L.]] degrees. He practised at the [[Bar (law)|Bar]] in [[Bankipore]] until moving to [[Allahabad]] in 1870.<ref name="abanerji" /><ref name="liberation" />

== Life ==
Banerjee first entered the judiciary of India in January 1872 as a [[munsif]], working at Allahabad, [[Benares]] and Ghazipore. He was appointed a [[subordinate judge]] in 1880, working first in the [[Small Causes Court]]s of [[Agra]], where he was the first Indian judge,<ref name="abanerji" /> and then at Allahabad. He held a brief appointment as an additional civil judge at [[Lucknow]] in 1893 before becoming a [[puisne judge]] for the [[North-Western Provinces]] at Allahabad High Court in December of that year.<ref name="liberation">{{cite journal |journal=The Liberal and the New Dispensation |location=Calcutta |date=17 December 1873 |volume=XII |issue=50 |page=4 |title=Notes and Comments |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3KopAAAAYAAJ&pg=PT389}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |title=The India List and India Office List |author=India Office, United Kingdom |publisher=Harrison and Sons |location=London |year=1905 |page=591 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=b2NPAAAAMAAJ}}</ref> He remained in that office until August 1923, when he was replaced by Kanhaiya Lal prior to retiring from the bench in March 1924.<ref name="abanerji">{{cite web |first=Amitav |last=Banerji |url=http://www.allahabadhighcourt.in/event/SriPramodaCBanerjeeABanerji.pdf |title=Sir Pramoda Charan Banerjee |publisher=Allahabad High Court |accessdate=2014-08-11}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=Imperial and Foreign News Items |newspaper=The Times |location=London, England |date=19 September 1923 |page=9 |issue=43450}}</ref>

Banerjee was the second Indian to be appointed a judge at the Allahabad High Court, the first being [[Syed Mahmood]],{{efn|Between 1876 and 1910 there were 29 judges who sat in the Allahabad High Court, of which 25 were British. Two of the remainder, including Mahmood, were Muslims whose opinions were rarely accepted by the full bench.<ref name="Kozlowski">{{cite book |title=Muslim Endowments and Society in British India |first=Gregory C. |last=Kozlowski |edition=Reprinted |publisher=Cambridge University Press |year=2008 |isbn=978-0-521-08867-1 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9I2JbchpdMMC |pages=118–119}}</ref>}} whom Banerjee succeeded.<ref name="Kozlowski" /><ref>{{London Gazette |issue=26467 |date=15 December 1893 |page=7319}}</ref> With Mahmood, Chief Justice [[John Edge]] and others, he "made indelible imprints greatness as Judges on the pages of [Allahabad High Court’s] law reports".<ref>{{cite web |first=Nasirullah |last=Beg |url=http://www.allahabadhighcourt.in/event/Welcome_Address_NU_Beg25-11-66.pdf |title=Welcome Address |date=25 November 1966 |publisher=Allahabad High Court}}</ref>

Appointed a [[Knight Bachelor]] in the [[1913 Birthday Honours]],<ref>{{London Gazette |issue=28733 |date=1 July 1913 |page=4638}}</ref> Banerjee was a member of the law faculty at the University of Allahabad and was Vice-Chancellor of the university from 1917 to 1919,<ref>{{cite web |title=Ex- Vice Chancellor |publisher=University of Allahabad |url=http://www.allduniv.ac.in/index.php/about-us/introduction/ex-vc-list |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20130204112621/http://www.allduniv.ac.in/index.php/about-us/introduction/ex-vc-list |archivedate=4 February 2013}}</ref> in which year the university conferred on him the degree of Doctor of Laws, ''[[honoris causa]]'';<ref name="abanerji" /> later, it also established the P. C. Banerjee Hostel in honour of him.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.allduniv.ac.in/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=141&Itemid=378 |title=History |publisher=University of Allahabad}}</ref> In 1921, he was awarded the [[Kaisar-i-Hind Medal]], first class, by [[George V]] in recognition of his public service.<ref>{{cite news |title=Kaisar-I-Hind Medal |newspaper=The Times |location=London, England |date=1 January 1921 |page=9 |issue=42607}}</ref>

Banerjee died at the age of 82.<ref name="abanerji" /> Among his children was Lalit Mohan Banerjee, who also served as a judge in the Allahabad High Court.<ref>{{cite news |title=Mr. Justice Banarjee |newspaper=The Times |location=London, England |date=20 October 1932 |page=19 |issue=46269}}</ref>

==Recognition==
[[Allahabad University]] established the Sir Pramada Charan Banerjee [[hostel]] in 1915 in his honour.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.allduniv.ac.in/?option=com_k2&view=item&layout=item&id=786 |title=Sir PCB Hostel |quote=Hindi text: Sir P. C. Banerjee Hostel (established 1916 to pay regard to Sir P. C. Banerjee) organised a centenary function on 2, 3, 4 October 2015" |publisher=University of Allahabad |accessdate=2015-10-06}}</ref>

==References==
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