Parbati Kumar Goswami (1 January 1913 – 1992) was an Indian jurist, acting governor of Assam and Nagaland and former judge of the

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. He was the first Assamese justice on the Supreme Court.

Early life

Goswami was born in 1913 in

Assam Assam (, , ) is a state in Northeast India, northeastern India, south of the eastern Himalayas along the Brahmaputra Valley, Brahmaputra and Barak River valleys. Assam covers an area of . It is the second largest state in Northeast India, nor ...

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. His father was Bamdeb Goswami and mother's name Jogada Devi. He studied in English School at

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, passed B.A.(Hons.) from

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with First Class and Gunabhiram Barooah Silver Medal and completed B.L from Earle Law College of

Gauhati Guwahati () the largest city of the Indian state of Assam, and also the largest metropolis in northeastern India. Dispur, the capital of Assam, is in the circuit city region located within Guwahati and is the seat of the Government of Assam. Th ...

Career

Goswami at first started practise at

Dibrugarh Dibrugarh () is a city in the Indian state of Assam, located 435 kms east of the state capital Dispur. It serves as the headquarters of the Dibrugarh district in Upper Assam. Dibrugarh also serves as the headquarters of the Sonowal Kach ...

in 1938 then came to the

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in 1943. He served as government pleader from 1947 to 1949. He was designated as senior advocate of the Supreme Court in 1953. He was the member of the State Law Commission. In 1967 Goswami was appointed as the Judge of the Assam and Nagaland High Court and thereafter became the chief justice of the same court. From December 1970 to January 1971 he took over the charge of the

Governor of Assam This is a list of governors of Assam, and other offices of similar scope, from the start of British occupation of the area in 1824 during the First Anglo-Burmese War. The governor of Assam is the nominal head of the Indian state of Assam. The ...

and

Nagaland Nagaland () is a States and union territories of India, state in the northeast India, north-eastern region of India. It is bordered by the Indian states of Arunachal Pradesh to the north, Assam to the west, Manipur to the south, and the Naga Sel ...

. He was also an active member of World Association of Judges in

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. On 10 October 1973 Justice Goswami was elevated as justice of the Supreme Court of India and retired on 31 December 1977.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Goswami, Parbati Kumar 1913 births Governors of Assam Governors of Nagaland Chief justices of the Gauhati High Court Justices of the Supreme Court of India 20th-century Indian judges 21st-century Indian judges Senior advocates in India People from Assam Cotton College, Guwahati alumni Year of death missing