It was 40 years ago, on this date i.e. 12th June, 1975, two significant events happened in India which led to the proclamation of emergency. The rest is history and need not be repeated. Why should this be mentioned in the context of review of Shri M.C. Chagla’s ‘ Roses in December’? Because, the eight edition of the book includes an epilogue about the emergency which throws an unknown fact that a High Court Judge was also a casualty of the emergency.
Leaving aside this, the question whether th It was 40 years ago, on this date i.e. 12th June, 1975, two significant events happened in India which led to the proclamation of emergency. The rest is history and need not be repeated.
Why should this be mentioned in the context of review of Shri M.C. Chagla’s ‘ Roses in December’? Because, the eight edition of the book includes an epilogue about the emergency which throws an unknown fact that a High Court Judge was also a casualty of the emergency.
Leaving aside this, the question whether the reading of a biography which was published forty years back in today’s context will still be interesting. At a time biographies are produced with sensational disclosures,the relevance of biography of Mr. Chagla with its appendixes of letters, speeches is really interesting. Many of the incidents narrated have been widely debated subsequently that the novelty has worn off.
Nevertheless, it is really fascinating to read about the life of a multi faceted personality in his own language which is poetic in some places. But it also reads more like instructional manual of the ideas of the author on various subjects. Late Shri M.C.
Chagla was a multi faceted personality - a junior lawyer who practiced under Mr. Jinnah - “a great nationalist turned rank communalist propounding two nation theory”. He was an activist in independence movement, a Puisne Judge, Chief Justice of the High Court for the undivided state of Mumbai, an Ad-hoc Judge of the International Court of Justice, Indian Ambassador to USA, High Commissioner to UK, Minister of Education, Minister for External Affairs in Congress s Govts. He was widely criticized when he resigned as the Chief Justice of Mumbai High Court to take up Ambassadorship to USA. The biography is the outcome of a “tendency to make a selection which is favourable to oneself and which in the December of one’s life permits one to enjoy the fragrance of roses” and as such an account of “those memories which one would like to preserve forever and relive in thought and imagination, if not in reality. “ The biography starts in an impersonal tone observed in obituary - ‘a bare bald history of man’ and ends in a moving account of his personal life showing the human side of the author.
After an eventful and hectic career, the author lamenting the death of his wife “stared at the walls of his room, without the sound of any human voice to assuage his loneliness”. He was candid enough to admit that “ circumstances play a part in whatever success one has achievements. So 'it is sheer human vanity to attribute to one’s own ability and the eminence which one might have achieved.” He was of the firm view that contingents play important part in one’s life. He traces his early childhood, his education in Oxford, his encounter with many freedom fighters, his role as a Judge and Minister. What is of relevance today is that Mr.
Chagla remained a nationalist to the core and was highly critical of the pandering of the Congress to those elements in minorities which were communal to the core. He was highly critical of Jinnah and Pakistan. For a person who had passed judgments in almost 20 years of service, the author was frank enough to admit that no man is, in fairness, entitled to sit in judgment on others. When we are at a stage where all the parochial elements are entertained and given importance not only by mainstream parties but also by the Media, this book is a must read for all those politicians playing to the gallery of divisiveness.
Autobiography of versatile Statesman the first line of the book itself haunts reader with the question -why does a man want to write his autobiography but immediately bounce reader with the question why I am reading this book 'why' now been fixed to my mind before doing anything. Justice Chagla is a multifarious person, as a judge, politician, ambassador, minister, writer, journalist, diplomat, governor etc, it's not an easy one to handle different roles in real life special sticking to own Pri Autobiography of versatile Statesman the first line of the book itself haunts reader with the question -why does a man want to write his autobiography but immediately bounce reader with the question why I am reading this book 'why' now been fixed to my mind before doing anything. Justice Chagla is a multifarious person, as a judge, politician, ambassador, minister, writer, journalist, diplomat, governor etc, it's not an easy one to handle different roles in real life special sticking to own Principles and growing in society. The interesting fact about M.C chagla book is you can't find his full name and nowhere chagla stressed, chagla is the name recognized by self-identity, the book consists with 100s of personalities in every stage of life of chagla and association with them and shared a lot of experience, reader come across with many post-independence developments. Chagla education life in oxford and role in Indian majis group and Jinnah's views on Indian political system and two nationa theory and intial struggle days in Indian bar to earn and connection with coltman, dalphtary, munshi, stelevad, Leonard stone etc Book astonishes with chagla religious ignorance and stress for UCC, Polygamy and minority and majority pointing out Muslims are not minorities in India and disputes and furor against chagla views by Muslim community and death threats. ' law is a great discipline for the mind, it teaches you how to think clearly, precisely, accurately' chagla Being a chief justice and ad-hoc judge remarkably contributed in initial growth, every suggestion inspires readers and points out the duties, chagla never reserved a judgements and dictating in open court perhaps such practice and skill can't find and it may be resulting to justice denied and delayed, In a year around 16000 judgements were passing later as acting governor for moorarji desai govt its most interesting part, when two intellectual minds meets.
As an ad-hoc judge reader can meet many international personalities through book and working of ICJ and India v. Portugal conflict in right to passage international high seas, chagla acceptance and praise of many astute lawyers and judges including Pakistan zafrullaha khan and mentioned the developments of security council referendum against south Africa countries.
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Chagla served as a diplomat for US, Cuba, Mexico and High commissioner for UK and participated various delegations and summits and criticized the US for supplying arms for Pak and Nehru recognition of chagla continuously in his administration and wonder is overall such a growth chagla now owned any assets in India. Later served as education minister and external affairs minister, the problems mentioned and faced in the book till today existed rampantly in Indian administration especially language, river, education, cultural religious, Kashmir geopolitical - west Asian crisis etc later resignation against the decision of language determination. Justice chagla severely criticized the political developments and Indira Gandhi regime for taking over judiciary for politicizing and emergency and pointed as a direct attack on democracy, opposed 24th 25th, 42nd amendments. Nehru compared chagla autobiography famous Abraham Cowley quote -readers ears to hears anything of praise for him, Krishna Iyer honor as a diamond -hard secularist and points territorial patriotism than communal or religious. The final question remained is as a reader 'why' I delayed in reading this book.
Contents. Active life and career Born on 30 September 1900 in to a well-off merchant family, Chagla suffered a lonely childhood owing to his mother's death in 1905. He was educated at St. Xavier's High School and College in Bombay, after which he went on to study at, from 1919 until 1922. In 1922, he was admitted to the Bar of the, where he worked with such illuminaries as Sir Jamshedji Kanga and, who would one day become the founder of.
Initially, like many nationalists, Chagla idolized Jinnah due to his then nationalistic views and held membership in the. He worked under Jinnah in Bombay for seven years, often, as he recounts in his autobiography in a state of penury. However, he severed all ties to Jinnah after Jinnah began to work for the cause of a separate Muslim state. Chagla, along with others, then founded the Muslim Nationalist Party in Bombay, a party which was ignored and pushed aside in the independence struggle. He was appointed as Professor of law to Government Law College, Bombay in 1927, where he worked with Dr. He was appointed as a judge to in 1941, becoming Chief Justice in 1948 and serving in that capacity to 1958.
All through, he continued to write and speak strongly for the Indian freedom cause and against the communal two nation ideology. In 1946, Chagla was part of the first Indian delegation to the UN. From 4 October to 10 December 1956, Chagla served as Acting Governor of the then state of Bombay, later broken up into the states of and. Following his tenure as Chief Justice, he served as the one-man commission that examined the, over the controversial LIC insurance scandal, which forced Krishnamachari's resignation as Finance Minister. Krishnamachari was quite close to Nehru, who became intensely angry at Chagla for his revelations of TTK's part in the affair, though he later forgave Chagla.
From September 1957 to 1959, Chagla served as ad hoc judge to the. After retirement he served as Indian ambassador to the USA from 1958 to 1961.
Chagla then served as from April 1962 to September 1963. Immediately on his return, he was asked to be a Cabinet Minister, which he accepted, and he served as from 1963 to 1966, then served as the from November 1966 to September 1967, after which he left government service. He then spent the remaining years of his life actively, continuing to practice law into his seventies. As Minister of Education under, Chagla was distraught by the quality of education in government schools: Our Constitution fathers did not intend that we just set up hovels, put students there, give untrained teachers, give them bad textbooks, no playgrounds, and say, we have complied with Article 45 and primary education is expanding. They meant that real education should be given to our children between the ages of 6 and 14 Personal life and family In 1930, Chagla married Mehrunissa Dharsi Jivraj, a lady of his own community and similar family background, in a match arranged in the usual Indian way by their families. Their marriage was harmonious and conventional. The couple were blessed with four children, being two sons, Jehangir (b.
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1934) and Iqbal (b. 1939) and two daughters, Husnara (b. 1932) and Nuru (b.
Their son Iqbal Chagla became a lawyer; his daughter (M.C. Chagla's granddaughter) Rohiqa Mistry is the wife of, who served as chairman of in the period 2014-16.
Chagla's younger daughter, Nuru, married Subbaram Swaminathan, a south Indian gentleman, son of politician and brother of captain and. Mehrunissa Dharsi Jivraj died in November 1961. Chagla survived her by nineteen years, dying in February 1981. Last years and death In 1973, Chagla published his autobiography, Roses in December, with the help of his son Iqbal. He vehemently protested against the. He died on 9 February 1981, at the age of 81 of heart failure. He had been unwell for several years, and had suffered four.
True to his active and energetic nature, he had not let his health slow him down. On the day of his death, he went as usual to his club in Bombay and had a good time with his friends. He then slipped away to the dressing room and there, peacefully died. According to his wish, he was cremated instead of having a traditional Muslim burial.
The Bombay High Court was closed to show respect for him, and several speeches were made in his memory, including one by former Prime Minister,. In 1985, a statue of Chagla was unveiled and placed within the High Court itself, appropriately outside the Chief Justice's Court where once he served. The inscription on the statue plinth reads: ' A great judge, a great citizen, and, above all, a great human being.' Further facts Though born a Muslim, Chagla was more of an agnostic. The surname 'Chagla' was not his original surname.
In Chagla's autobiography, he recounted that in his youth, he was known as 'Merchant' as both his father and grandfather were merchants. Hating the name due to its associations with money, he went to his grandfather one day and asked him as to what he should call himself. His grandfather promptly replied 'Chagla' as his father, Chagla's great-grandfather, had had Chagla as his pet name, which in the language means 'favourite'. Chagla promptly adopted the new surname. References. Chandrachud, Abhinav (7 February 2014). Retrieved 8 September 2017.
Chagla, M.C. (1 January 1982). Roses in December (9th ed.). Mumbai: Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan. access-date= requires url=. Iyer, V.R.Krishna (22 October 2000).
Retrieved 8 September 2017., Ministry of Human Resource Development, retrieved 2015-04-03 Further reading Roses In December, an autobiography, M.C. Chagla, Tenth Edition, Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan, 2000, External links. Political offices Preceded by 1966–1967 Succeeded by Preceded by 1958–1961 Succeeded.
Contents. Active life and career Born on 30 September 1900 in to a well-off merchant family, Chagla suffered a lonely childhood owing to his mother's death in 1905. He was educated at St. Xavier's High School and College in Bombay, after which he went on to study at, from 1919 until 1922. In 1922, he was admitted to the Bar of the, where he worked with such illuminaries as Sir Jamshedji Kanga and, who would one day become the founder of. Initially, like many nationalists, Chagla idolized Jinnah due to his then nationalistic views and held membership in the.
He worked under Jinnah in Bombay for seven years, often, as he recounts in his autobiography in a state of penury. However, he severed all ties to Jinnah after Jinnah began to work for the cause of a separate Muslim state. Chagla, along with others, then founded the Muslim Nationalist Party in Bombay, a party which was ignored and pushed aside in the independence struggle. He was appointed as Professor of law to Government Law College, Bombay in 1927, where he worked with Dr. He was appointed as a judge to in 1941, becoming Chief Justice in 1948 and serving in that capacity to 1958. All through, he continued to write and speak strongly for the Indian freedom cause and against the communal two nation ideology. In 1946, Chagla was part of the first Indian delegation to the UN.
From 4 October to 10 December 1956, Chagla served as Acting Governor of the then state of Bombay, later broken up into the states of and. Following his tenure as Chief Justice, he served as the one-man commission that examined the, over the controversial LIC insurance scandal, which forced Krishnamachari's resignation as Finance Minister.
Krishnamachari was quite close to Nehru, who became intensely angry at Chagla for his revelations of TTK's part in the affair, though he later forgave Chagla. From September 1957 to 1959, Chagla served as ad hoc judge to the.
After retirement he served as Indian ambassador to the USA from 1958 to 1961. Chagla then served as from April 1962 to September 1963. Immediately on his return, he was asked to be a Cabinet Minister, which he accepted, and he served as from 1963 to 1966, then served as the from November 1966 to September 1967, after which he left government service. He then spent the remaining years of his life actively, continuing to practice law into his seventies. As Minister of Education under, Chagla was distraught by the quality of education in government schools: Our Constitution fathers did not intend that we just set up hovels, put students there, give untrained teachers, give them bad textbooks, no playgrounds, and say, we have complied with Article 45 and primary education is expanding.
They meant that real education should be given to our children between the ages of 6 and 14 Personal life and family In 1930, Chagla married Mehrunissa Dharsi Jivraj, a lady of his own community and similar family background, in a match arranged in the usual Indian way by their families. Their marriage was harmonious and conventional. The couple were blessed with four children, being two sons, Jehangir (b. 1934) and Iqbal (b.
1939) and two daughters, Husnara (b. 1932) and Nuru (b.
Their son Iqbal Chagla became a lawyer; his daughter (M.C. Chagla's granddaughter) Rohiqa Mistry is the wife of, who served as chairman of in the period 2014-16. Chagla's younger daughter, Nuru, married Subbaram Swaminathan, a south Indian gentleman, son of politician and brother of captain and. Mehrunissa Dharsi Jivraj died in November 1961. Chagla survived her by nineteen years, dying in February 1981.
Last years and death In 1973, Chagla published his autobiography, Roses in December, with the help of his son Iqbal. He vehemently protested against the. He died on 9 February 1981, at the age of 81 of heart failure. He had been unwell for several years, and had suffered four.
True to his active and energetic nature, he had not let his health slow him down. On the day of his death, he went as usual to his club in Bombay and had a good time with his friends. He then slipped away to the dressing room and there, peacefully died. According to his wish, he was cremated instead of having a traditional Muslim burial. The Bombay High Court was closed to show respect for him, and several speeches were made in his memory, including one by former Prime Minister,.
In 1985, a statue of Chagla was unveiled and placed within the High Court itself, appropriately outside the Chief Justice's Court where once he served. The inscription on the statue plinth reads: ' A great judge, a great citizen, and, above all, a great human being.' Further facts Though born a Muslim, Chagla was more of an agnostic. The surname 'Chagla' was not his original surname. In Chagla's autobiography, he recounted that in his youth, he was known as 'Merchant' as both his father and grandfather were merchants. Hating the name due to its associations with money, he went to his grandfather one day and asked him as to what he should call himself. His grandfather promptly replied 'Chagla' as his father, Chagla's great-grandfather, had had Chagla as his pet name, which in the language means 'favourite'.
Chagla promptly adopted the new surname. References.
Chandrachud, Abhinav (7 February 2014). Retrieved 8 September 2017. Chagla, M.C. (1 January 1982). Roses in December (9th ed.). Mumbai: Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan.
access-date= requires url=. Iyer, V.R.Krishna (22 October 2000). Retrieved 8 September 2017., Ministry of Human Resource Development, retrieved 2015-04-03 Further reading Roses In December, an autobiography, M.C. Chagla, Tenth Edition, Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan, 2000, External links.
Political offices Preceded by 1966–1967 Succeeded by Preceded by 1958–1961 Succeeded.
I have never read such a profound piece of biographic literature written anywhere till date. Every page is a delicacy, the stature of this man`s achievements stand higher than the ordinary skies. A must read for lawyers, judges and for everyone in general. I have never read such a profound piece of biographic literature written anywhere till date. Every page is a delicacy, the stature of this man`s achievements stand higher than the ordinary skies. A must read for lawyers, judges and for everyone in general.
Autobiography of M C Chagla reads like a text book of history- He has described his education in Oxford England- his friends Bandarnaike. He studied all through the year for the exams but stopped reading text books two days before the exams. He returned and started practice at the Bombay High Court where he worked with Jamshedji Kanga and MA Jinnah. He joined the Muslim league but left because it wanted division of India and started a Muslim Nationalist Party in Bombay. He was appointed lecturer Autobiography of M C Chagla reads like a text book of history- He has described his education in Oxford England- his friends Bandarnaike. He studied all through the year for the exams but stopped reading text books two days before the exams. He returned and started practice at the Bombay High Court where he worked with Jamshedji Kanga and MA Jinnah.
He joined the Muslim league but left because it wanted division of India and started a Muslim Nationalist Party in Bombay. He was appointed lecturer in Government College of Law Mumbai where he taught with BR Ambedkar. He was appointed Judge of Bombay High Court and later Chief Justice of the Court.
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He was appointed ambassador to USA then to UK. He has described his tenure and incidents also. Interesting part is description of death of MA Jinnah and about the married to Dina and Jinnah. His appointment as Education Minister and later as Minister of Foreign Affairs. Here he has described that government offices which worked during office hours only so he received all letters at his official residence which came after office hours and later marked to government offices to action according to priority.
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