198 WHO'S WHO IN INDIA June, 1904, and he was made a Companion of the Imperial Service Order in June, 1913, in recognition of his services to the estate. The Khan Bahadur retired from the Government service in July, 1913, but he is still in the State service. His eldest son Mr. Ghulam Mohiuddin, B.A., L.L.B. (Cantab) is a Barrister-at-Law. Address: Nandgaon. Kashinath Keshav Thakur M.A.,B.L.,i.s.o.,Rao Bahadur, was born in 1861 and educated at Saugor, Jubbulpore and Allahabad, respectively. His career has been briefly noticed in the principal volume, see page,«r24-25. Part VI. Since the publication of that volume Mr. Thakur has been made a Companion of the Imperial Service Order in recognition of his further meritorious public services. Address : Senior Divi- sional and Sessions Judge, Nagpur. Muhammad Ismail, Khan Saheb, Maulvi, born, November nth, 1844, in the city of Meerut, traces his descent from Hazrat Abubakr-i-Siddique, the first Caliph. One of his ancestors, Maulana Hamiduddin Khuzandarani, migrated from Persia to India with Babar, the first Moghul Emperor, and settled at Sikri in the District of Myzaffarnagar. The family, later on, shifted to Lawar about 10 miles south of Meerut and was awarded grants of free land by a voyaXfarman of Shershah" Soori and other grants were added to them later on in the reign of Akbar the Great. These lands are still in possession of the family. Maulvi Mohammad Ismail was educated privately, his studies having been confined princi- pally to Persian and Arabic literatures. He joined the Government service in the Education Department at an early age of sixteen. The Maulvi is a poet and author of consider- able repute, his works numbering about 30. As a juvenile poet in Urdu he has few equals. His Urdu Reader series owing to its scientific graduation and excellence of language have been in popular use for the last 21 years as text books and otherwise all over India. Durinjj the Russo-Japanese
