INDIAN BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIONARY, 1915.
Narayana Rao.
Dewan of Mysore, 1894; special duty in charge of Statistics, 1895; Deputy Commissioner, 1905; officiating Excise Commissioner; invested with 1st class Magisterial Powers, 1894; District Magistrate, 1895. Address: Mysore, India.
Narayan Singh Sadeshri Prasad, Rai Bahadur, Raja of Salemgarh. (See Salemgarh, Raja of.)
Narayana Singh, Sardar Bahadur; Captain, Double Company Commander, Bharatpur Imperial Service Infantry; b. 1867; educ: at Ludiana and Lahore; his ancestors held high Military posts in the time of Maharaja Ranjit Singh; his grandfather was Killadar of Ludiana Fort; joined the Tirat Expedition, 1837-98; Havaldar, with the China Expeditionary Force. 1900-01; holds War medals. Address: Bharatpur; also Bakhnwal, Ludiana, Punjab, India.
Narajole, Raja of; Narindra Lal Khan; descendent of Raja Ragunath of Midnapur; b. 1866; educ: privately in Sanskrit, Bengali and English; title of ‘Khan’ is hereditary, and was conferred on the family by the Nawab Nazim of Bengal; title of Raja conferred by British Government, 1887. Address; Narajole, Midnapur District, Bengal Presidency, India.
Natesan, Ganapati Agraharam, B.A., F.M.U., Editor and Proprietor, ‘The Indian Review’, Madras; Chief Partner in Messrs. G. A. Natesan and Co., Madras; b. 1879; educ: Town High School, Kumbakonam, St. Joseph’s College, Trichinopoly, Angl0-Vernacular High School, (now Hindu High School) Triplicane, and the Presidency College, Madras; passed B.A. (History and Economics), 1837; made the Presidency College Literary Society, and the now defunct body, the Madras University Union, successful working institutions; apprenticed for Journalistic work. 1838; started the ‘Indian Review’, 1900; led a successful agitation against the late Sir V. Bhashyam Iyengar’s ‘Hindu Gains of Learning Bill’ almost at the very start of the ‘Indian Review’; took part in the agitation for the improving of the position of Indians in South Africa, 1910-14; Fellow, Madras University, since 1907; Commissioner, Madras Corporation, and Member of the Standing Committee of the Madras Corporation; Member, Madras Mahajana Sabha; the Madras Provincial Congress Committee; the National Fund and Industrial Association; Secretary, Ripon Memorial Committee; Secretary, Madras South African League. Publications: many publications of Indian Social, Political and Educational subjects, which have obtained a wide popularity; issued a 2 as. edition of the Bhagavat Gita (translated by Mrs. Besant); many articles in Reviews and Journals. Address: 297, Thumbu Chetty Street, Georgetown, Madras, India.
Nathan, Robert, B.A., Bar-at-Law, C.I.E. (1903), C.S.I. (1911), I.C.S.; b. 1866; s. of John Nathan; educ: St. Peter’s College, Cambridge; joined I.C.S. in Bengal, 1888; Under Secretary, Govern-
