Albion Rajkumar Banerjee
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Personal details | |
Born | 10 October 1871 Calcutta, India |
Alma mater | University of Calcutta Balliol College, Oxford |
Occupation | Civil Servant |
Sir Albion Rajkumar Banerjee (10 October 1871 – 25 February 1950) was an Indian civil servant and administrator who served as the Diwan of Cochin from 1907 to 1914, 21st
Early life and education
Albion Rajkumar Banerjee was born in
He married Nalini Gupta, daughter of
Career
Magistrate
He cleared the
Premierships
Kingdom of Cochin
Banerjee was appointed Diwan of Cochin in May 1907 and served till 1914.[2] He introduced The Cochin State Manual.[3]
Kingdom of Mysore
Banerjee became a minister (councillor as they were known) in Diwan
Kingdom of Kashmir
Banerjee was appointed the first and only prime minister of Kashmir in 1927 to Maharaja Hari Singh. He resigned in 1929 over differences with maharaja on the grounds of his lavish lifestyle sustained by a poor population. His wrote:
Jammu and Kashmir state is labouring under many disadvantages, with a large Mohammedan population absolutely illiterate, labouring under poverty and very low economic conditions of living in the villages, and practically governed like dumb driven cattle. There is no touch between the government and the people, no suitable opportunity for representing grievances... The administration has at present no or little sympathy with people's wants and grievances...[5]
Publications
- Indian Affairs (a quarterly journal published from London).
- Indian Tangle (Hutchinson—London)
- Indian Path-Finder (Kemp Hall Press—Oxford)
- Rhythm Of Living (Ryder & Co -London)
- Looking Ahead in Wartime (Harmony Press-London)
- What is Wrong with India (Kitabistan—Allahabad)
- Through an Indian Camera (Bangalore Press)
Honours
- Companion of the Order of the Indian Empire (1912)
- Companion of the Order of the Star of India (1921)
- Knighthood (1925)
Notes
- ^ Rao, C. Hayavadana (1915). The Indian Biographical Dictionary. Madras: Pillar & Co. p. 23.
- ^ Somerset Playne; J. W. Bond; Arnold Wright (2004) [1914]. Southern India: its history, people, commerce, and industrial resources. Asian Educational Services. p. 372.
- ^ Achyutha Menon, C (1911). Cochin State Manual. Cochin State.
- ISSN 1479-2443.
- ^ Geelani, Syed Bismillah. Kashmir, Kashmiris and Kashmiriyat in Manufacturing terrorism: Kashmiri encounters with media and the law. Promilla and Co., Publishers, page 33.
References
- Who's who – India. Tyson & Co. 1927. p. 14.