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Indian statesman, diplomat and jurist
Shanti Swaroop Dhavan
(2 July 1906 ? 1 January 1978) was an Indian statesman, diplomat and jurist who was the 6th
Governor of West Bengal
from 19 September 1969 to 21 August 1971.
Life and career
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Dhavan was born on 2 July 1906 to
Rai Bahadur
Bali Ram Dhavan, and hailed from
Dera Ismail Khan
, in
Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa
,
Pakistan
.
[1]
He was educated at the
Forman Christian College
,
Lahore
,
[2]
at
Emmanuel College, Cambridge
(where he became the first Indian President of the
Cambridge Union
),
[3]
and in law at the
Middle Temple
,
Inns of Court
,
London
. He served as a lecturer in law at
Allahabad University
from 1940 to 1954. Dhavan then served as a judge of the
Allahabad High Court
from 28 June 1958 to 2 July 1967,
[4]
and was appointed a senior advocate at the
Supreme Court of India
.
[5]
Dhavan was then appointed
High Commissioner to the United Kingdom
, and served from 1968 to 1969.
[6]
He had two sons:
Ravi S. Dhavan
, who was Judge of the High Courts of Allahabad and Patna; and
Rajeev Dhavan
,
[7]
who became President of the Cambridge Union like his father,
[3]
and is now a famous Senior Advocate practicing in Supreme Court of India. His daughter
Rani Dhavan Shankardass
is an Indian social historian and global expert on prison reform. She is the Secretary General of Penal Reform and Justice Association (PRAJA) and the President of Penal Reform International.
Gubernatorial Tenure
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He was Governor of West Bengal from 19 September 1969 to 21 August 1971. Dhavan's gubernatorial tenure was marked by the imposition of two stints of
President's rule
following the fall of the United Front government of
Ajoy Mukherjee
and the collapse of his third ministry in 1971.
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