Natwarlal H. Bhagwati

Justice Natwarlal Harilal Bhagwati (7 August 1894 – 7 January 1970) was a Judge at the Supreme Court of India from 1952 to 1959 and the Vice-Chancellor of Banaras Hindu University from 1960 till 1966.

He got his Bachelor of Arts from Elphinstone College with honours in 1914 and was a Senior Daxina Fellow of Bombay University for the period 1914–17.

[3] One year into his retirement from the Bench, Bhagwati was made the Vice-Chancellor of the Banaras Hindu University.

[3] According to a note on the family history on his son Jagdish Bhagwati's home page at Columbia University, Natwarlal Bhagwati was a patron of Indian classical music during his term at BHU where he was instrumental in the award of an honorary doctorate by the university to Omkarnath Thakur.

It is also claimed that Justice Bhagwati played a role in the selection of Jarava Lal Mehta and Jayant Narlikar to be respectively sent to Germany and Cambridge for further studies.