Satyendra Prasanno Sinha, 1st Baron Sinha of Raipur KCSI

Order of the Star of India

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 KC was a prominent lawyer and statesman in British India.
Sinha was born in Raipur

Raipur, Birbhum

Raipur is a village under Raipur–Supur gram panchayat of Bolpur–Sriniketan block in Bolpur subdivision of Birbhum district in the Indian state of West Bengal...

, India into a wealthy family of the Hindu

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 Kayastha

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 caste

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. He was the youngest son of Sitakanta Sinha, zamindar

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of Raipur

Raipur, Birbhum

Raipur is a village under Raipur–Supur gram panchayat of Bolpur–Sriniketan block in Bolpur subdivision of Birbhum district in the Indian state of West Bengal...

. He married Gobinda Mohini Mitter on 15 May 1880 at Mahata, Burdwan, Bengal

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 and later studied in Presidency College, Calcutta and then studied law in England from 1881 to 1886 at Lincoln's Inn

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, returning to Calcutta as a barrister

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From 1886, he and his wife became followers of Sadharan Brahmo Samaj

Sadharan Brahmo Samaj

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, becoming leading members of the Brahmo

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 community.
After returning to India in 1886, Sinha established a successful legal practice in Calcutta.