Pannalal Bose was an eminent jurist and a judge who delivered famous "Bhawal's Case" which rocked the Privy Council by storm setting aside the Full Bench Judgment of the

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. He was the Education and Land Revenue Minister of

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from 1952 to 1956. He was educated at the

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References

*Chatterjee, Partha. 2002. ''A Princely Impostor? : The Strange and Universal History of the Kumar of Bhawal'' Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press University of Calcutta alumni 20th-century Indian judges 1881 births 1956 deaths {{India-law-bio-stub