Background
Mitra was born in Bengal to Ashutosh Mitra.
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Bhupendra Nath Mitra
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University of Calcutta. Presidency University, Kolkata.
Career
He received his early education at the Metropolitan Institution and the Hare School. Taking an Master of Arts from Presidency College, then under the University of Calcutta, in 1895, he entered government service the following year. In 1910, Mitra was appointed Assistant Secretary to the Government of India, in the Finance Department.
He was appointed a Companion of the Order of the Indian Empire ( International Commission on Illumination) in the 1913 King"s Birthday Honours, and was promoted to acting Deputy Secretary in the Finance Department in 1915.
In the same year, he was appointed Controller of War Accounts. He was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire, Civil Division (Officer of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire) on 4 December 1917, becoming one of the first to be so honoured.
On 8 January 1919, he was promoted to Commander of the Order of the British Empire, Civil Division (Commander of the Order of the British Empire), for his services to the war effort. Later the same year, he was appointed Military Accountant-General.
In 1922, Mitra was named Financial Advisor, Military Finance for the Indian Army.
He was further knighted in 1928 when he was appointed a Knight Commander of the Order of the Star of India (KCSI) in that year"s New Year Honours list. In 1931, Mitra was appointed as the third Indian High Commissioner in the United Kingdom, succeeding Sir Atul Chandra Chatterjee. The following year he was a delegate to the International Labour Conference in Geneva, also becoming president of the General Assembly of the International Institute of Agriculture in Rome.
He also served as the Indian representative on the Imperial Economic Committee, becoming its vice-chairman in 1935.
Mitra was succeeded as High Commissioner in 1936 by Sir Feroz Khan Noon, and died on 25 February of the following year, aged 61.
Membership
He was knighted as a Knight Commander of the Order of the Indian Empire (KCIE) in the 1924 New Year Honours list, also becoming a member of the Viceroy"s Executive Council the same year. He would remain a member of the council through 1930, briefly serving as temporary Finance Member in 1925.
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India