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PREFACE.
Some portions of this appeared in 'The Indian Good Templar' 1919, the official organ of the Grand Lodge of India, I. O. G. T., and some parts of it were read in Lord Clive Lodge No. 35, Calcutta, and the rest published for the first time.
I thank Dr. H. H. Mann, D.Sc. the Grand Chief Templar of the Grand Lodge of India, for encouraging me in this work, and Mr. S. C. Palit M.A., B.L., for going through the M.S.S.
I received much help from the Bengalee paper 'Sura' by my uncle, the late Kumar A. K. Deb, published from the Sahitya Sava of Calcutta, a debt, I gratefully acknowledge.
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