INDIAN BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIONARY, 1915.
Raghoprasad.
joint General Secretary, Landholders’ Association, Agra; Member, Allahabad District Board. Address: Karchanna, Baraon Estate, Allahabad, U.P., India.
Ragozin, Zenaide Alexievena; a great traveller; b. in Russia and naturalised in the United States, 1894; Member, Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland; Member, American Oriental Society, Member, Society Ethonologque of Paris. Publications: Story of Chaldea, Story of Assyria, Story of Madia, Babylon and Persia, Story of Vecic India, G. History of the World, The Empire of the Tsars and Russians.
Ragina, Palanji Pestonji; Khan Bahadur, (1899), Bombay; s. of late Pestonjee Jivanji Ragina; b. 1836; educ: Bombay; joined service in the Postal Department; was Treasurer, General Post Office, Bombay; retired, 1896; rendered excellent help to Sir James Campbell in alleviating the sufferings of the people during the plague scare. Address: Bombay. India.
Rahim Baksh, Haji Moulvi, C.I.E., (1909); s. of Chaudhuri Haji Shah Nawaz Khan; b. 1861; President, Council of Regency, Bhavalpur State. Address: Bhavalpur, India.
Rahim Shah, Mian Sir, Khan Bahadur (1897), K.C.I.E., (1911). Address: Kheka Kheb, Peshawar, India.
Rahimtoola, Sir Ibrahim, K.C.I.E. (1911), C.I.E., (1907); s. of Rahimtoola Kadirboy; b. 1862; J.P. for Bombay; Fellow, Bombay University; Director, Bank of India; Additional Member, Legislative Council, Bombay; Member, Bombay Corporation; Member, Bombay Improvement Trust. Address: Peddar Road, Cumballa Hill. Bombay, India. Club: Orient, Bombay.
Rai Benamali, Rai Bahadur, Rajar’shi; b. 1862; educ: Patua Zillah School; an extremely religious and charitably disposed man; erected and endowed charitable dispensaries at Banwarinagar, Brindaban and Kusumbi, and schools at Banwarinagar and Sirajganj; founded the Elliot Technical School and the Thomson Memorial Hall, Patna; adopted by the late Baha Banwari Lai Rai; now living the life of a devotee at Brindaban; annual income of the estate, about 4 lakhs. Address: Tarash, Patna Dt., Bengal Presidency; and Brindaban, Muttra, U.P., India.
Rai Gagan Chandra, Rai Bahadur (1893), b. 1848; commenced ofificial career in the Famine Department; rose to the rank of Chief Account Officer in the Opium Dept.; travelled in Europe and was present in London in company with his kinsman the Maharaja Tagore of Calcutta, at the time of the Coronation of His late Majesty Emperor Edward VII; granted a Certificate of honour, 1903; retired, 1908. Address: Calcutta, India.
Raikes, Lt.-Colonel Frederick Duncan, C.I.E. (1887), I.S.C, Commissioner, Upper Burma, (Retd); b. Futtegher, India, 1848; s. of late Charles Raikes, C.S.I.; educ: Privately; and Royal Military College, Sandhurst; arrived in India as Ensign, 66th Regiment,
