Residence Gorabazaar, Berhampore Died 8 April 1967, Kolkata | Education Advocate | |
Full Name Nagendra Kumar Bhattacharyya Born 5 November 1888 ( 1888-11-05 ) Tripura, British India Spouse(s) Snehalata Devi of Mymensingh Children Engineer Debabrata Bhattacharyya, Brigadier Priyabrata Bhattacharyya, Dipl. Ing. Subrata Bhattacharyya, Brigadier Charubrata Bhattacharyya Annapurana Bhattacharyya Sati Bhattacharyya Gauri Bhattacharyya Parent(s) Shri Nandkumar Bhattacharyya (Father) Alma maters Krishnath College, Baharampur, University of Calcutta | ||
Rai Sahib Nagendra Kumar Bhattacharyya (5 November 1888 – 8 April 1967) was an Indian lawyer and member of the West Bengal Legislative Council.
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Early life
Rai Sahib Nagendra Kumar Bhattacharyya was born into an orthodox Brahmin Zamindar family in Tripura. He is the son of Shri Nandkumar Bhattacharyya. He was educated at Nawab's H. E. School, Murshidabad and later at KrishnaNath College, Berhampore. He received a Government Scholarship and graduated from the University of Calcutta in law in 1913 in first division.
Career
He joined the Murshidabad District Bar as a pleader in 1913. He enrolled as an Advocate at Berhampore in 1931. He started practicing in civil and criminal law in Berhampore and was enrolled as an Advocate of the Calcutta High Court in 1931. In 1932 he officiated as the Government Pleader of Murshidabad.
Rai Sahib Nagendra Kumar Bhattacharyya was retained Advocate of the Court of Murshidabad. In 1934 he was given the title Rai Sahib. He was Commissioner of the Berhampore Municipality from 1932 to 1948. He was member of the West Bengal Legislative Council from June 1956 to June 1964.
On 12 March 1967, the Berhampore Bar Association celebrated the Golden Jubilee of his practice.
A Zamindar (aristocrat, typically hereditary, who held enormous tracts of land and held control over the peasants) Rai Sahib Nagendra Kumar Bhattacharyya was a Jaagirdar in the State of Murshidabad (holder of a feudal land grant in South Asia bestowed by a monarch to a feudal superior in recognition of his service (Jaagir, equivalent to a European county or duchy). He is mentioned in the book 'Bansha-Parichay' that documents eminent noble and aristocratic family lineages of undivided Bengal in British India. He was one of the select noblemen invited to attend the coronation durbar of King George V, Emperor of India.
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was father of 4 sons and 3 daughters. He died on 8 April 1967 at Calcutta, aged 78.