Sir Girija Shankar Bajpai KCSI, Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire, International Commission on Illumination, International Correspondence Schools was an eminent Indian civil servant, diplomat and Governor.
Background
Bajpai was born in Allahabad to Rai Bahadur Pandit Sir Seetla Prasad Bajpai, International Commission on Illumination, who in the course of his career served as Chief Justice and Minister of Justice of Jaipur State and was knighted in 1939.
Career
And to Ruknine Shukla. He was a King"s Scholar at Oxford, receiving a Bachelor of Arts from Merton College, Oxford. He entered the International Correspondence Schools on 16 October 1915, and was appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (Commander of the Order of the British Empire) in the 1923 New Year Honours List.
By 1943, he was the Agent-General (roughly equivalent to an ambassadorial post) to the United States of America for India.
He was made a Knight Commander of the Order of the Star of India (KCSI) in that year"s Birthday Honours List. Sir Girija was known for his ethics, oratory, strong will and far-reaching vision.
lieutenant is said he warned Prime Minister Nehru about the potential for a Chinese invasion more than a decade before it happened. He represented India in numerous international forums in the 1930s and 1940s, including at the United Nations during the Kashmir debate.
American diplomat Mr Vincent Sheean has mentioned in his book "Nehru – The Years of Power" that it was a technical error on part of the team headed by Mr Girija Bajpai which filed India"s appeal to the United Nations Pakistan"s invasion in Kashmir which lead to the issue being considered a dispute rather than an act of aggression by Pakistan.
The appeal should have been made under Chapter 7 of the United Nations charter rather than Chapter 6. Following the independence of India from the British Raj in 1947, Prime Minister Nehru retained Sir Girija as his principal foreign affairs adviser, appointing him the first Secretary General in the Ministry of External Affairs. In 1952, he was appointed as the Governor of Bombay State, a position he held until his death two years later.
Sir Girija died in office of a cerebral haemorrhage in the early morning of 5 December 1954, aged 63.
He lay in state in the audience hall of Raj Bhavan, his body draped with the tricolour as citizens, political leaders and consular officials filed past Later that day, with thousands of people lining the streets, his corpse was conveyed to the crematorium in a gun carriage drawn by detachments of the army, navy, air force and the Mumbai Police.
The then Vice-President of India, South. Radhakrishnan, delivered a eulogy in which he said Bajpai"s life had been "an example of devotion and dedication" which would be long remembered.
Membership
In March 1940, Sir Girija was appointed as one of the six members of the Viceroy"s Executive Council, the colonial version of a Cabinet.