INDIAN BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIONARY, 1915.
Abdus Sobhan.
Abdus Sobhan, Nawabzada Abul Khair, Khan Bahadur; second son of late Nawab Bahadur Abdul Latif, Khan Bahadur, C.I.E.; born, 1859; educated at the Madrassa and the Presidency College, Calcutta, and entered Government service in 1884; founder of many social clubs in various parts of Bengal, the latest of them being the Faridpur Social Club; Khan Bahadur, 1908. Address: Faridpur, Bengal.
Abraham Pandithar, Rao Sahib; born 1860; privately educated; founded an experimental farm, which has been a great success; Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, London; Member of the Madura Tamil Sangam; Member of the Municipal and Taluk Boards and Hospital Committee, Tanjore; Governor of the Victoria Caste and Gosha Hospital, Madras; Honorary Visitor of the Government Agricultural College, Coimbatore and Tanjore; and Ayurvedic Medical Practitioner, Tanjore; title conferred, June 1909. Publications: “Karunaiiaritha Sagara Thirattu” (a book on Hindu Music) Address: Karunanitha Medical Hall, Tanjore, Madras Presidency.
Abrahams, Lionel, C.B. Financial Secretary, India Office, since 1902; born, 1869; educated at City of London School; scholar of Balliol College, Oxford; Arnold Prizeman, 1891; entered India office, 1893; Assistant Financial Secretary, 1901; Financial Secretarv, 1902; C.B. 1908; has contributed to the Dictionary of Political Economy; gave evidence before the Indian Finance and Currency Committee, 1913-4. Author of “The Expulsion of the Jews from England in 1290”. Recreation: Collecting Books. Address: 18, Dorchester Terrace, W.; India Office, S.W. Club: East India United Service.
Abu Jafar, Saiyid, Raja of Pirpur; born 1872 and succeeded, 1894. Well versed in Arabic literature and philosophy, having studied them in Arabia; privately educated in English at Pirpur; has had to face a protracted litigation with another branch of the family, who disputed his succession to the estate. In consultation with and under the advice of late Sir John Woodburn. effected a compromise with his opponents, by making over to them a third of the estate and 4½ lakhs of rupees in cash; has largely improved his estate; has established the Jafna School, where free education is given; has contributed Rs. 20,000 to the Muslim University and spends a sum of Rs. (3,000) a year on poor students; has contributed liberally to the Lady Dufferin Fund and has built and endowed a Students’ Boarding House at Tanda; family is said to have been founded by one Saiyid Suleman, a merchant of Khorassan who came to Oudh in 1403 and married one of the Saiyids of Itraura; his descendants were holding the office of Chaudhri in the pargana of Akbarpur in the days of Emperor Akbar; the estate comprised of no less than 645 villages in 1819 when it came into the possession of Mir Kasim Ali. Shortly afterwards through the influence of the Court of Oudh, Ghalib Jang, the Nazim, obtained a firman and took possession of the whole estate. With the help of the British Resident then stationed at Lucknow, Mir Kasim Ali soon regained entire possession of the whole of his estate. Address: Pirpur, Akbarpur Tahsil, Fyzabad, U.P.
Abul Hasankhan, Raja of Paintepure and Bilahra; born, 1888; succeeded to title, 1904; Raja is of the same family as that of Mahmudabad; Mazhar Ali Khan
