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India's Kashmiri Pandit community: Its history and prominent personalities

New Delhi: The Kashmiri Brahmin Community, popularly called Kashmiri Pandits, form a distinct class of their own and are considered to be the purest specimens of the ancient Aryan settlers in the Valley.  This small

India TV News Desk Published : Nov 19, 2012 21:50 IST, Updated : May 18, 2014 7:19 IST
Tej Bahadur Sapru



Sir Tej Bahadur Sapru was an eminent lawyer, political and social leader in India during the British Raj. He was knighted in 1922.

Tej Bahadur Sapru was born on December 8, 1875 in Aligarh, Uttar Pradesh. He was born in a Kashmiri Hindu family of the Sapru sub-caste.

He was educated at the Agra College,He served as a dean of Banaras Hindu University.

Sapru worked in the Allahabad High Court as a lawyer where Purushottam Das Tandon worked as his junior. Tej Sapru was probably the best Hindu lawyer in British India.

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