M. C. Chagla

Mahommedali Currim Chagla, born in 1900, was an Indian lawyer, Cabinet Minister, diplomat, and the Chief Justice of the Bombay High Court. Chagla studied at St. Xavier's High School and College in Bombay. In 1919, he joined Lincoln College, Oxford. The author graduated with a distinction in B.A. in the Honours School of Modern History in 1922. He then joined the Bar of the Bombay High Court. Chagla became a Professor of Constitutional Law at the Government Law College, Bombay in 1927. In 1941, he was appointed as a judge at the Bombay High Court. Seven years later, he became its Chief Justice, a position he held for ten years. In 1958, Chagla retired from the High Court, and became the Indian ambassador in USA. He was later appointed as the Indian High Commissioner in United Kingdom. He was India?s Education Minister, and also was the Minister for External Affairs. He passed away in 1981.