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INDIAN BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIONARY, 1915.

Bastar.

interfered and made it their tributary and exacted tribute. Thereafter, the State came under the control of the British and has since remained under their Control. The Raja has made extensive Indian tours and has Considerably improved the administration. Address: Jagdalpur, Bastar, C.P.

Basu, Hon’ble Babu Bhupendra Nath, B.A., Attorney, Calcutta; belongs to a respectable Kayastha family; born, 1859: B.A., 1880; enrolled as solicitor's Clerk in Calcutta; M.A., with honours in English literature, 1881, enrolled as an attorney of the Calcutta High Court; an active member of the Calcutta Corporation and has been an active member in all social and political movements in the country; an ardent temperance reformer; President of the Bengal Provincial Conference held at Mymensingh, 1905; a staunch supporter of the Indian National Congress .and was Chairman of the Congress Reception Committee in 1906; visited England and spoke on Indian affairs before large English audiences; was an elected member, first in the Bengal and then in the Supreme Legislative Council; during his tenure of membership in the latter body, he introduced a Civil Marriage Bill, which created a good deal of agitation throughout India; Government of India eventually disallowed it; deputed to proceed to England for the purpose of enlightening the British public on the present condition of affairs in India, 1914, a powerful speaker and Writer; elected President, Indian National Congress, 1914. Address: Calcutta.

Basu, Kailash Chandra. Rai Bahadr, (1895), C.I.E., (1910) K.I H. 1909; One of the leading citizens of Calcutta; Member of the Corporation of Calcutta and Honorary Presidency Magistrate, Address: 1, Sukea's Street, Calcutta.

Basu, Karunedas, M.A., B.L. Rai Bahadur; born, 1847; educated, Presidency College, Calcutta; comes from a good Decca family; worked in the village of Dakhintalegpur during the cyclone of 1876. Address: 55, Mirzapur street, Calcutta.

Basu, Nritya Gopal. Rai Bahadur; (See Nritya Gopal Basu).

Basu, Srish Bhandra, B.A., Rai Bahadur, Judge of the Court of Small Causes, Benares; Member of the Theosophical Society; Trustee and Member of the Central Hindu College Managing Committee, Benares: Born, 1861; son of Babu Bearma Charan Basu; educated, Lahore Government College; Joined Judicial Branch, 1892; appointed to the Benares Small Cause Court, 1910; a recognised Sanskrit scholar, and Cerudit lawyer, with a thorough mastery of Arabic and Persian. Publications: Astadhayi of Panin. and Sidhanta Kaumadi of Bhatroji Dikshit. Address: Benares Cantonment.

Batchelor, Hon. Mr. Justice Stanley Lockhart, Judge of High Court. Bombay, since 1904 Educ: St. Edmund's Coll, Ware University Coll. London; Entered I.C.S. 1887, Under-Secretary to Government, Political Department 1896; Judge, 1901. Retd. 1914.

Bate, Colonel Thomas Elwood Lindsay, C.I.E. (1902) L.R.

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