Dictionary of Indian Biography/Banerji, Hem Chandra

by Charles Edward Buckland

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BANERJI, HEM CHANDRA (1838–1902)

Educated in his village and at the Hindu College, Calcutta: Scholar: entered Government service in the Military Auditor General's office: B.A.: munsif at Howrah and Serampur: practised as a High Coiurt Vakil from 1862, and became Senior Government Pleader: as a Bengali poet he had perhaps no rival in modern Bengal: died 1902.