N. K. Choksy

Nariman Kairshasp Choksy, QC was Ceylonese lawyer and judge.

Choksy was born in Ceylon to a Bombay Parsi family that had migrated to Colombo from Surat, North of Bombay, in the year 1885 to manage an established business house in the Coconut oil industry at Colombo.

He was the Chairman of the Land Acquisition Board of Review from 1950 to 1960 and served as the chairman of the Commission of Inquiry in to Local Government in Ceylon, which published The Choksy Report that was used as a refence for advocating more powers and facilities to local government bodies and which first identified the need for the establishment of a National Library of Sri Lanka.

He found himself to be a stateless person in 1948 with the enactment of the Ceylon Citizenship Act.

He was granted Ceylonese citizenship on 1950 as a Distinguished Citizen under the provisions of the Act No 40 of 1950.