Nand entered the X Bengal Lancers in 1880, and in iN<iN was seconded for duty in the Political Department, in which department he remained till 1902. He was afterwards appointed Political Assistant to the Chief Commissioner, which post he held till September, 1908, when he was made Treasury Officer at Hazara, which office he still holds with credit. He is a first grade Extra Assistant Commissioner. He received a commission in the X Bengal Lancers in 1885, and the title of Rai Bahadur in 1900 in recognition of the meri- torious services he rendered to Government. He has also received the Punjab Frontier Medal, the Royal Victorian Medal and Medals for the Durbars of 1903 and 191 1. He owns landed property in the Peshawar District. Address: Hazara, -V. F. Province.
Ramanuja Chariyar, Kilambi, M.A., B.L., Rao Bahadur, Fellow of Madras University, Principal of the Maharaja's Col- lege, Vizianagram, Vakil Madras High Court, was born in 1855 and educated at the Maharaja's High School, Vizianagram, and the Madras Presidency College. He is descended from ancestors who emigrated from Conjeeveram to the Northern Circars about 150 years ago, several of whom have been noted as Sanskrit writers and scholars. One of his ancestors was a favourite disciple of Ramanuja, the great Vaishnava reformer. At the age of eighteen Mr. Ramanuja Chariyar commenced the study of English ; he matriculated from the Vizia? nagram school and was sent to Madras University by the late Raja. Having taken his M. A. degree he studied Law, and passed the B. L. degree examination. He served a course of apprenticeship to Mr. Eardley Norton, Barrister-at- Law, but when about to commence practice in the Madras Courts he was invited by the Raja of Vizianagram to take up the Vice- Principalship of his College. This he did, and subsequentlv became Principal, which office he still holds. He was elected a Fellow of his University in 1894, and has been a member of the Board of Sanskrit Studies for over ten years. For some
