Benegal Narsing Rough

Sir Benegal Narsing Rau (born  February 26, 1887 in Mangalore , Karnataka , †  November 30, 1953 in Zurich ) was an Indian lawyer who was instrumental in revising the Indian law in the 1930s and, after 1945, in the formulation of the constitutions of India and Burma participated. From February 1952 until his death he worked as a judge at the International Court of Justice .

Life

Benegal Narsing Rau was born in Mangalore in 1887 and studied at the Universities of Madras and Cambridge . In 1910 he entered the Indian civil service and worked, among other things, as legal advisor to the legislative assembly and the government of the state of Assam . In 1934/1935 he worked as a consultant in the legal department of the Indian government, from 1935 to 1937 he played a major role in the revision of the Indian code. In 1939 he was appointed judge at the Calcutta High Court , which he held until 1944. In 1944/1945 he was Prime Minister of the Princely State of Jammu and Kashmir . After the end of the Second World War he was from 1946 to 1949 as an advisor in the Constituent Assembly of India and in 1947 as an advisor to the constituent assembly of Burma in the drafting of the constitutions of both countries.

Benegal Narsing Rau headed the Indian delegation to the fourth, fifth and sixth sessions of the General Assembly of the United Nations (UN) and was the permanent representative of his home country at the UN from 1949 to 1953. In 1950 he was Chairman of the United Nations Security Council as representative of India . In addition, he was a member of the UN International Law Commission from 1949 to 1951 , and he was elected Vice President. After he was temporarily considered to be a possible successor to Trygve Lie in the office of the UN Secretary General , he became the first Indian judge at the International Court of Justice in December 1951 . He began working in The Hague in February 1952, but died in Zurich in 1953, before the end of his regular nine-year term of office. His successor was Muhammad Zafrullah Khan from Pakistan .

Awards

Benegal Narsing Rau was 1938 Knight Bachelor beaten and received in 1948 from the University of Delhi and 1,951 from Oberlin College , the honorary doctorate .

literature

• Benegal Narsing Rough. In: Arthur Eyffinger, Arthur Witteveen, Mohammed Bedjaoui : La Cour internationale de Justice 1946–1996. Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, The Hague and London 1999, ISBN 90-411-0468-2 , p. 320
• This Day That Age. Dated December 01, 1953: BN Rau dead. Obituary in: The Hindu. Edition dated December 1, 2003
• Death of Sir Benegal Narsing Rau, Member of the International Court of Justice. Press release 53/42 of the International Court of Justice of November 30, 1953 on the occasion of the death of Benegal Narsing Rau (available online on the ICJ website as a PDF file , approx. 60 kB)
• Rough, Sir Benegal Narsing . In: Encyclopædia Britannica. Encyclopædia Britannica 2007 Ultimate Reference Suite . Encyclopædia Britannica, Chicago 2008
• Sir Benegal Narsinga Rau , in: Internationales Biographisches Archiv 04/1954 from January 18, 1954, in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of article freely available)