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About Pramada Charan Banerjee
- Sir Pramada Charan Banerjee (10 April 1848 – 22 March 1930) was a Bengali Indian jurist of the British Raj era in the Allahabad High Court and also Vice-Chancellor of the University of Allahabad.Banerjee was born on 10 April 1848.
- He lived in Uttarpara and attended Presidency College, Calcutta and the University of Calcutta, from which he respectively obtained B.A.
- and B.L.
- degrees.
- He practised at the Bar in Bankipore until moving to Allahabad in 1870.Banerjee first entered the judiciary of India in January 1872 as a munsif, working at Allahabad, Benares and Ghazipore.
- He was appointed a subordinate judge in 1880, working first in the Small Causes Courts of Agra, where he was the first Indian judge, and then at Allahabad.
- He held a brief appointment as an additional civil judge at Lucknow in 1893 before becoming a puisne judge for the North-Western Provinces at Allahabad High Court in December of that year.
- He remained in that office until August 1923, when he was replaced by Kanhaiya Lal prior to retiring from the bench in March 1924.Banerjee was the second Indian to be appointed a judge at the Allahabad High Court, the first being Syed Mahmood.
- Mahmood had retired from the Court in the face of accusations that his chronic drunkenness was affecting his ability and it was his place that Banerjee took.
- With Mahmood, Chief Justice John Edge and others, he "made indelible imprints greatness as Judges on the pages of [Allahabad High Court’s] law reports".Appointed a Knight Bachelor in the 1913 Birthday Honours, Banerjee was a member of the law faculty at the University of Allahabad and was Vice-Chancellor of the university from 1917 to 1919, in which year the university conferred on him the degree of Doctor of Laws, honoris causa; later, it also established the P.
- C.
- Banerjee Hostel in honour of him.
- In 1921, he was awarded the Kaisar-i-Hind Medal, first class, by George V in recognition of his public service.Banerjee died at the age of 82.
- Among his children was Lalit Mohan Banerjee, who also served as a judge in the Allahabad High Court.
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