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INDIAN BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIONARY, 1915.

Seshacharlu.

Seshacharlu, D., B.A., B.L., B.C.E., Assistant Director, Revenue Survey. Madras; b. 1865; joined service, 1889; Sub-Assistant in charge of Survey party No. 2 Special Deputy Collector in charge of Survey Operations Godavari, 1894; Assistant Superintendent of Survey, Kurnool 1900; Assistant Director of Survey, Ganjam, 1905; transferred to Madras, 1909; in charge of the Central Survey Office, Madras. Address: Triplicane, Madras.

Seshagiri Rao, D., B.A., B.L., Rao Bahadur (1910), Vakil, Cocanada; 6. 1864; passed B.A., 1884; B.L., 1886; enrolled, 1892; has been Chairman, Cocanada Municipality for the past 9 years. Address: Cocanada, S. India.

Seth Ballabdas, Diwan Bahadur, Banker, Jubbalpore; g.s. of late Seth Kushal Chand, who was of considerable help to the British in the Mutiny of 1857; b. 1861; educ: privately; owner of many cotton ginning and pressing factories in the Central Provinces and Berar and Etawah; established a glass factory at Jubbalpore; Chairman, Municipal Board, Jubbalpore; President, Landholders’ Association and Secretary, Gokuldas Ballabdas Cotton Spinning and Weaving Mills; owns property in several districts of the Central Provinces. Address: Jubbalpore, Central Provinces, India.

Seth, Kusturi Chand Daga, C.I.E. (1909), Diwan Bahadur. Address: Bikanir, Rajputana.

Sethna, Rustumji Dhajibhai, B.A., LL.B., Bar-at-Law, Registrar, High Court, Bombay; called to Bar, 1884; joined service as acting Professor, Law School, Bombay, 1886; confirmed, 1889; Registrar, High Court, Appellate Side, 1833; confirmed, 1895. Address: Bombay, India.

Setlur, Mr. S. S., formerly Judge, Chief Court, Mysore State; be longs to a family whose members had distinguished themselves in the British as well as in the service of the State of Mysore; s. of late S. Singiengar, formerly Maramuth Bakshi (Chief Engineer), Mysore State; b. 1862; educ: Presidency College, Madras; underwent a course in the B.Sc. class in the Science College, Poona; passed LL.B. of the Bombay University, 1891; won Judge Spencer’s prize and the Arnold scholarship; enrolled as Advocate of the Bombay and Madras High Courts, 1892; joined service as Professor of Law, Government Law School; Examiner, High Court examinations; Kanarese Examiner, Bombay University; Fellow, Bombay University; Member, Royal Asiatic Society; was Bombay Correspondent of the ‘Hindu’, Madras; was Editor of the English Column of ‘Indu Prakash’, Bombay; a Sanskrit scholar of repute and is interested in the advancement of Sanskrit knowledge. Publications: Reply to a disquisition on the origin and growth of the Bengal School of Hindu Law by Mr. Justice S. C. Mitter of Calcutta, published in the London Law Quarterly Review; a translation of the Mitakshara, the leading Sanskrit authority on Hindu Law. Address: Bangalore City, Mysore State; Bombay High Court, Bombay.

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