Nagendra Kumar Bhattacharyya

Rai Sahib Nagendra Kumar Bhattacharyya (5 November 1888 – 8 April 1967) was an Indian lawyer and member of the West Bengal Legislative Council.

Early life

Rai Sahib Nagendra Kumar Bhattacharyya was born into an orthodox Brahmin Zamindar family in Tripura. He is the son of Shri Nandkumar Bhattacharyya. He was educated at Nawab's H. E. School, Murshidabad and later at KrishnaNath College, Berhampore. He received a Government Scholarship and graduated from the University of Calcutta in law in 1913 in first division.

Career

He joined the Murshidabad District Bar as a pleader in 1913. He enrolled as an Advocate at Berhampore in 1931. He started practicing in civil and criminal law in Berhampore and was enrolled as an Advocate of the Calcutta High Court in 1931. In 1932 he officiated as the Government Pleader of Murshidabad.

Rai Sahib Nagendra Kumar Bhattacharyya was retained Advocate of the Court of Murshidabad. In 1934 he was given the title Rai Sahib. He was Commissioner of the Berhampore Municipality from 1932 to 1948. He was member of the West Bengal Legislative Council from June 1956 to June 1964.

On 12 March 1967, the Berhampore Bar Association celebrated the Golden Jubilee of his practice.

A Zamindar (aristocrat, typically hereditary, who held enormous tracts of land and held control over the peasants) Rai Sahib Nagendra Kumar Bhattacharyya was a Jaagirdar in the State of Murshidabad (holder of a feudal land grant in South Asia bestowed by a monarch to a feudal superior in recognition of his service (Jaagir, equivalent to a European county or duchy). He is mentioned in the book 'Bansha-Parichay' that documents eminent noble and aristocratic family lineages of undivided Bengal in British India. He was one of the select noblemen invited to attend the coronation durbar of King George V, Emperor of India.

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Other positions

• Director, West Bengal Provincial Co-operative Bank
• Director, City Murshidabad Co-operative Society
• Vice Chairman, West Bengal Central Co-operative Land Mortgage Bank
• Member, Law Sub Committee, All India Co-operative Union
• Member, Working Group on Industrial Co-operatives appointed by Ministry of Commerce and Industry, Govt. of India
• Member, Executive Committee National Co-operative Land Mortgage Bank
• Vice Chairman, Berhampore Central Co-operative Bank
• Vice Chairman, Murshidabad District Co-operative Land Mortgage Bank
• Vice Chairman, Berhampore Co-operative Ganja Farming Society
• Vice President, Murshidabad Institute of Technology
• President, Berhampore Ramkrishna Mission

• Birth Centenary Celebration of Late Nagendra Kumar Bhattacharyya at Rabindra Sandan, organized by Berhampore Bar Association, Berhampore, West Bengal

Publications

• The cattle trespass act, 1871 (I of 1871) as modified up to 1958
• The code of criminal procedure (Act V of 1898) as amended up to date, with the Criminal law amendment act
• The Medico-Legal Court Companion
• The law of motor vehicles in India

• "National library". 
• "The code of criminal procedure (Act V of 1898) as amended up to date, with the Criminal law amendment act, 1933". 
• "Medico-legal court companion,". 
• "K.C. Chakravarty's The law of motor vehicles in India, comprising the Motor vehicles Act (IV of 1939) as amended by Act XL of 1939 and Act XXVI of 1940 with the Bengal motor vehicles tax act, 1932, and the Bengal motor vehicles tax rules, 1933 and the Indian motor vehicles act, 1914 and extracts from English road traffic acts of 1930 and 1934 together with a chapter on the trial of motor car chases and complete schedule.". 

Family life

was father of 4 sons and 3 daughters.

He died on 8 April 1967 at Calcutta, aged 78.