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Biography of Tej Bahadur Sapru, SirName: Tej Bahadur Sapru, SirBirth Date: 1875 Death Date: January 20, 1949 Place of Birth: Aligarh, India Nationality: Indian Gender: Male Occupations: lawyer, politician Tej Bahadur Sapru, Sir Sir Tej Bahadur Sapru (1875-1949) was an Indian lawyer and statesman. His career aptly illustrates the significance of the legal profession in the political and constitutional development of India.Tej Bahadur Sapru was born in Aligarh into an aristocratic Kashmiri Brahmin family living in Delhi. He attended high school in Aligarh and matriculated at Agra College, where he took his law degree. After an apprenticeship at Moradabad he joined the Allahabad High Court in 1898. He was knighted in 1923 for outstanding legal contributions. He set impeccable standards in his personal and professional life and possessed a scholarly knowledge of Persian and Urdu as well as English.Sapru was appointed a member of the governor general's executive council and served on the Round Table Conferences in London and on the Joint Parliamentary Committee. As a liberal favoring moderate change within the constitutional and legal framework, Sapru worked untiringly in the role of mediator …showed first 150 words…
…showed last 150 words…officers could not be prosecuted for treason.Throughout the constitutional debates Sapru played a key moderating role, appealing at each stage to Hindu and Moslem and to Englishman and Hindu to conciliate their differences. He sought in the process to safeguard the rights of each communal group. He died on Jan. 20, 1949. Further Reading An excellent source of information on Sapru's career is an article about him by Donald Anthony Low in Soundings in Modern South Asian History, edited by Low (1968). Aspects of his career are also discussed in Cyril Henry Philips and Mary Doreen Wainwright, eds., The Partition of India: Policies and Perspectives, 1935-1947 (1970). For general historical background see Romesh Chandra Majumdar and others, An Advanced History of India (1946; 3d ed. 1967).Bose, Sunil Kumar, Tej Bahadur Sapru, New Delhi: Publications Division, Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, Govt. of India, 1978.Mohan Kumar, Sir Tej Bahadur Sapru: a political biography, Gwalior: Vipul Prakashan, 1981. |