The Indian Biographical Dictionary (1915)/Setlur, Mr. S. S.
Setlur, Mr. S. S., formerly Judge, Chief Court, Mysore State; be longs to a family whose members had distinguished themselves in the British as well as in the service of the State of Mysore; s. of late S. Singiengar, formerly Maramuth Bakshi (Chief Engineer), Mysore State; b. 1862; educ: Presidency College, Madras; underwent a course in the B.Sc. class in the Science College, Poona; passed LL.B. of the Bombay University, 1891; won Judge Spencer’s prize and the Arnold scholarship; enrolled as Advocate of the Bombay and Madras High Courts, 1892; joined service as Professor of Law, Government Law School; Examiner, High Court examinations; Kanarese Examiner, Bombay University; Fellow, Bombay University; Member, Royal Asiatic Society; was Bombay Correspondent of the ‘Hindu’, Madras; was Editor of the English Column of ‘Indu Prakash’, Bombay; a Sanskrit scholar of repute and is interested in the advancement of Sanskrit knowledge. Publications: Reply to a disquisition on the origin and growth of the Bengal School of Hindu Law by Mr. Justice S. C. Mitter of Calcutta, published in the London Law Quarterly Review; a translation of the Mitakshara, the leading Sanskrit authority on Hindu Law. Address: Bangalore City, Mysore State; Bombay High Court, Bombay.