Sambhunath Pandit | |
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| Born | 1820 |
| Died | 6 June 1867 (aged 46) Calcutta, Bengal Presidency, British India |
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Sambhunath Pandit (1820–1867) was the first Indian to become judge of Calcutta High Court in 1863. He served in that position from 1863 to 1867.[1]
Son of Sadasiv Pandit, he belonged to a Kashmiri Pandit family. 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.[2]
- ^ Cotton, H.E.A., Calcutta Old and New, 1909, p. 576, General Printers and Publishers Pvt. Ltd.
This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
- ^ Sengupta, Subodh Chandra and Bose, Anjali (editors), 1976/1998, Sansad Bangali Charitabhidhan (Biographical dictionary) Vol I, (in Bengali), p. 508, ISBN 81-85626-65-0.
