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Indian civil servant and jurist (1887–1953)

SirBenegal Narsing RauCIE (26 February 1887 – 30 November 1953) was an Indian civil servant, jurist, diplomat and statesman known for his role as the Constitutional Advisor to Constituent Assembly. He was also India's representative to the United Nations Security Council from 1950 to 1952.

Rau helped draft the constitutions of Burma in 1947 and India in 1950. He was the constitutional advisor of the constituent assembly of India. He was India's representative to the United Nations Security Council from 1950 to 1952, and was serving as its president when it recommended armed assistance to South Korea in June 1950. Later he was a member of the Korean War post Armistice United Nations Command Military Armistice Commission (UNCMAC).

A graduate of the Universities of Madras and Cambridge, Rau entered the Indian civil service in 1910. After revising the entire Indian statutory code (1935–37), he was knighted in 1938 and was made judge of the Bengal High Court at Calcutta in 1939. His writings on Indian law include a noted study on constitutional precedents as well as articles on human rights in India. He served briefly (1944–45) as Minister of Jammu and Kashmir state. From February 1952 until his death, he was a judge of the International Court of Justice at The Hague. Before his election to the court, he was regarded as a candidate for secretary-general of the United Nations. Sir B. N. Rau's brothers were Governor of the Reserve Bank of IndiaBenegal Rama Rau and journalist and politician B. Shiva Rao.

Early life and education

B. N. Rau was born during the late British Raj on 26 February 1887 in a well-educated and prosperous Hindu Saraswat Brahmin family. His father Benegal Raghavendra Rau was an eminent doctor. Rau graduated from the Canara High School, Mangalore (Ancient Tulunad Head quarters), topping the list of students of the en

Indian banker and judge, 4th Governor of the Reserve Bank of India

Sir Benegal Rama RauCIE, ICS (1 July 1889 – 13 December 1969) was the fourth Governor of the Reserve Bank of India from 1 July 1949 to 14 January 1957.

Early life and family

He was born in a Konkani-speaking Chitrapur Saraswat Brahmin family from Mangalore. His elder brother Sir Benegal Narsing Rau went on to become an Indian civil servant, jurist, diplomat and statesman and legal adviser of the Constituent Assembly, and his younger brother B Shiva Rao became a journalist and politician.

He was educated at Presidency College of Madras, and at King's College in Cambridge.

He married Dhanvanthi Rama Rau, of Kashmiri Brahmin descent and a leader in the Indian women's rights movement who was the International President of Planned Parenthood and the founder of Family Planning Association of India, their younger daughter Santha Rama Rau became a travel writer, marrying and settling in the United States.

Career

Joining the Indian Civil Service in 1919, he was appointed a Companion of the Order of the Indian Empire (CIE) in 1930, and was knighted in 1939. He was a member of the Indian Civil Service. While he had the longest tenure as Governor of the RBI, it was cut short when he resigned just before the expiry of his second extended term, due to differences with Finance Minister T. T. Krishnamachari.

On joining the ICS and before joining the RBI he held the following posts.

• Under-Secretary and Deputy Secretary to the Government of Madras (1919–1924)
• Finance Department (1925–1926) as Secretary to the Indian Taxation Committee
• Finance Department (1926–1928) as Deputy Secretary
• Simons Commission (1928–1930) as Financial Adviser
• Industries Department Joint Secretary
• Round Table Conference as Secretary
• Indian Bill (1931–1934) in

India became a democratic Republic on this day in 1950 after attaining independence from the British in 19 47. Democracy means ruling by the choice of the majority; republic is more meaningful: rule by ordinary people, not by hereditary monarchs, feudal lords or any other privileged class. A nation state is considered full-fledged and sovereign only when, apart from its geographical boundary and people living within it, it has its own Constitution based on which laws of the land are made and rules of conduct by public and more importantly the public servants are specified in terms of right and wrong and corresponding punishment for violation. Essentially, a Constitution is the ‘will’ of the state. It is a sociopolitical and legal document which is drafted by experts and debated and voted by a Constituent Assembly or a similar body.

The Indian Constitution was drafted by a core committee of seven experts headed by Dr BR Ambedkar. All were legal experts or administrative luminaries including Sir BN Rau,  KM Munshi, N Gopalaswamy Ayyangar, Alladi Krishnaswamy Ayyar, Syed Mohammad Saadullah, N Madhava Rau who was Diwan (Prime Minister) of Mysore and replaced Bl Mitter who had resigned due to ill health. NMR had vehemently opposed Hindi as the national language. The draft was debated, altered and finally approved by the Constituent Assembly after a couple of years.  DP Khaitan  was also inducted, but he died in 1948 to be replaced by TT Krishnamachari, who became a Minister for two times in the  Nehru Cabinet.

Ambedkar was chosen the head because he had already served in various sub-committees like the Advisory Committee, Fundamental Rights Sub-Committee and Minorities Sub-Committee of the Constitutional Assembly. He submitted a memorandum with very valid suggestions to the Fundamental Rights Sub-Committee. This memorandum was later published for wider circulation under the title ‘States and minorities, their rights and ho