S. K. Majumdar
| S. K. Majumdar | |
|---|---|
| Personal details | |
| Spouse(s) | Jyoti |
| Children | Gauri, Sudhindra & Roma. |
| Profession | Barrister |
S. K. Majumdar was one of Patna High Court's leading lawyers, who primarily practiced at the Supreme Court of India and the Patna High Court. Majumdar was a well-known practitioner of Income Tax Laws.
Early life
The youngest son of Mr. Raj Kumar Majumdar, an inspecting director in the Education Department of India, S. K. Majumdar started his educational life as a Science student. However, all of a sudden he took up the study of law and became a pleader in Dacca. Thereafter, he decided to go to England and was called to Middle Temple on May 15, 1924.[1]
Legal acumen
His preferred field was income tax laws, and his clients included the well known Princes, Zamindars and other established landowners in erstwhile state of Behar.
Although a Barrister in his own right, he is remembered more for his work on biographical works on Mohandas K. Gandhi, Muhammad Ali Jinnah and Subhas Chandra Bose. He is known to have written a few books and they include:
- Evolution of Netaji, The Warrior Prophet of India. Calcutta., Netaji Research Bureau, Calcutta, 1969.
Controversies
His seminal work Jinnah and Gandhi[2] is also a suggested reading for M.Phil and Ph.D. Courses in the University of Peshawar for Indo-Pak Relationship."University of Peshawar's Course Material". Retrieved 25 March 2013.
Family
When he died in 1979, he was survived by his wife, Smt. Jyotilata Majumdar, son, Air Commodore S K Majumdar and two daughters, Smt. Gauri Bhattacharyya and Smt. Roma Mukherjee.
References
- ↑ "South Asians at the Inns of Court: Middle Temple, 1863-1944" (PDF). Register of Admissions to the Honourable Society of the Middle Temple. H. A. C. Sturgess, eds. From the Fifteenth Century to the Year 1944 (London: published for the Hon. Society of the Middle Temple by Butterworth & Co., 1949), volumes II (1782-1909) and III (1910-44). Retrieved 21 April 2015. Check date values in:
|date=(help) - ↑ Majumdar, S.K. (1966). Jinnah and Gandhi their role in India's quest for freedom. Calcutta: Firma K.L. Mukhopadhyay. LCCN sa67000282.