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May , 1901 saw the fulfillment of the desire of the
members of bar at Lucknow in particular and Oudh in
general when the Oudh Bar Association of Lucknow was
formed. These hundred years have changes the face of
the world, but legal profession by and large has
retained its character. Before 1926 there were three
categories of lawyers , Advocates, Vakils , Pleaders
. Barristers were enrolled as advocates by the Court
in organisation by merit. However the Bar did not
have any organized place until the turn of the
century after the construction of the new Court
building Oudh Bar Association was allotted two rooms
for its library and use by lawyers practicing in the
Court of Judicial Commissioner. About the same time
the Bar Association was organized without any
distinction of race or category of lawyers.
The founding of the Oudh Bar Association with the
object of serving the legal profession and rendering
public service was the ultimate aim.
Looking back over a span of one hundred
years and considering the achievements and failures
the overall picture that emerges is happy. Making a
modest beginning the Oudh Bar Association has grown
into an institution which has been rendering useful
service to the society.
Lawyers at Lucknow made their appearance
in 1856 when the Judicial Commissioner’s Court at
Lucknow was established upon the Annexation of Oudh
by the English rulers. Barristers from England
started legal practice as they came to earn fortune
from the Taluqdari cases. These were in course of
time joined by their Indian counterparts and a
combined bar of Indian and Englishmen flourished at
Lucknow. This is evident from the fact that both
Indian and English lawyers joined in the founding of
the Oudh Bar Association and getting it registered
under the Society Registration Act . English lawyers
like St. George Jackson and his brother John Jackson
have been the prominent office bearers of the Oudh
Bar Association . Similarly A.P.Sen, R.F.Bahadurji,
Choudhry Niamat-ullah have adorned the office of
President of the Oudh Bar Association.
The Oudh Bar Association has had eminent
leaders and public men. Bishan Narain Dar became a
Bar – at- law, but was expelled from the Biradari
for having crossed the seas. He presided at the
session of the Indian National Congress in the year
1911 at Calcutta . It was in the year 1911 that the
partition of Bengal made by Lord Curzon in 1905 and
which had stirred the entire country , was annulled
. Members of the Bar at Lucknow , as elsewhere were
also leaders of public opinion and actively
participated in the freedom struggle . participated
in the freedom struggle.
Lawyers may come and go but the Oudh Bar
Association has had a unique record in as much as
some leaders of the bar shall always be remembered
by the posterity for their contribution to
literature . Bishan Narain Dar, Brij Narain Chakbast,
Atul Prasad Sen and Anand Narain were poets of
eminence .Poems of these members of the bar are a
source of inspiration for all times to come.
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