Behari Lal Gupta CSI was a member of the Indian Civil Service and a politician.
His parents were Chandrasekhar Gupta and Rajeshwari, who was the elder sister of Narendranath Sen, editor of the Indian Mirror, the weekly journal of the Brahmo Samaj.
In England he joined University College, London and eventually passed the Open Competitive Service Examinations to become the third Indian to join the Indian Civil Service in 1869 coming out to India in 1871.
[citation needed] He was also called to the Bar by the Honourable Society of Middle Temple on 6 June 1871.
[citation needed] After retirement he was appointed as Law and Justice Member in Baroda in 1909 and then Dewan in 1912.