Background
Son of Sadasiv Pandit, he belonged to a Kashmiri Pandit family.
Son of Sadasiv Pandit, he belonged to a Kashmiri Pandit family.
University of Calcutta.
He served in that position from 1863-1867. One of the leading personalities of Kolkata in his age, he had contributed in many ways to the development of legal systems and enrichment of social life. He was brought up in Bhowanipur, Kolkata.
As a child, he went to Lucknow to study Urdu and Persian.
On return to Kolkata, he joined the Oriental Seminary. In 1861, he joined Dewani Adalat as assistant record keeper.
Having acquired experience in law matters he was posted as a court clerk issuing decrees. He wrote a book about the faults in the system of issuing decrees and attracted the attention of the government.
The laws were modified with his assistance.
He qualified as a lawyer in 1848 and started practising as a criminal lawyer He taught law at Presidency College and became a senior government counsel When the high court was established at Kolkata, he became the first Indian to be a judge of the high court.
He used to contribute articles on law matters in the Hindu Patriot, then being edited by Harish Chandra Mukherjee.
He published a book entitled On the Being of God. A government hospital and an important road in Bhowanipur are named after him.