Birendra Narayan Chakraborty: Difference between revisions

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'''Birendra Narayan Chakraborty'''  {{post-nominals|country=GBR|size=100%|OBE}} (also '''Birendra Narayan Chakravarty''')<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=aoPiAAAAMAAJ&q=%22CHAKRAVARTY,+Birendra+Narayan,+B.Sc.,+O.B.E.+%281945%29,+Governor+of+Haryana%22|title = The Times of India Directory and Year Book Including Who's who|year = 1971}}</ref> (20 December 1904 – 26 March 1976) was an [[India]]n civil servant, politician and the second [[List of Governors of Haryana|governor of Haryana]].<ref>{{cite book|last=De|first=Jatindra Ranjan|title=The Growth of parliamentary government in India|url={{Google books |plainurl=yes |id=l3mKAAAAMAAJ |page=228 }} |year=1991|publisher=Bijan Publishers|pages=228, 231}}</ref>  

He attended Kolkata's [[Scottish Church College]],<ref>''Some Alumni of Scottish Church College'' in ''175th Year Commemoration Volume''. Scottish Church College, April 2008. page 592.</ref> and continued his education at the [[University of Calcutta]]. He joined [[University College London]] for a BSc in chemistry in 1926. <ref name="chakravarty"/> After further studies for the Indian Civil Service examinations at the [[School of Oriental Studies]], London, he passed the examinations in 1928 and joined the ICS in October 1929 as an assistant collector and magistrate in the [[Bengal Presidency]].<ref name="chakravarty">{{cite book|pages=156|title=The India Office and Burma Office List: 1945|publisher=Harrison & Sons, Ltd.|year=1945}}</ref> He was promoted to joint magistrate and deputy collector in July 1930 and to additional district and sessions judge (officiating) in June 1935.<ref name="chakravarty"/> In February 1936, he was promoted to full [[magistrate]] and [[District collector|collector]], and was appointed a joint secretary with the Finance Department of the Government of Bengal in April 1944.<ref name="chakravarty"/> As an acting secretary, he was appointed an Officer of the [[Order of the British Empire]] (OBE) in the [[1945 Birthday Honours]] list.<ref>{{London Gazette |issue=37119 |date=8 June 1945 |page=2955 |supp=y |nolink=y}}</ref>

After [[Indian Independence Act 1947|Indian independence]], he served in many government posts. He was Indian Ambassador of Netherlands from 1952 - 1954 and high commissioner for India to London and Canada.<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=f9okDQAAQBAJ&pg=PA335|title=What the Rest Think of the West: Since 600 AD|author=Laura Nader|date=8 September 2015|publisher=University of California Press|isbn=9780520285774|access-date=8 September 2015}}</ref> Later he served as Governor of [[Haryana]] from 15 September 1967 until his death in office on 26 March 1976, aged 71.

[[Category:Officers of the Order of the British Empire]]