Hon. Secretary, Bengal Social Science Association; Member of the Philological Committee of the Asiatic Society of Bengal; a Trustee of the Indian Association for Cultivation of Science; Member of Committee of Albert Hall, also of the District Charitable Society. Received the Companionship of the Order of the Indian Empire, 1st January 1883. created a Nawab Bahádur in consideration of his eminent position and distinguished public services on the occasion of the Jubilee of Her Most Gracious Majesty's reign, 1887. He has two sons-Abul Fazl Muhammad Abdurrahman, Esquire, Barrister-at-law of the High Court, Calcutta ; Abul Khair Muhammad Abdus-Subhan, Khán Bahádur (4.7.) Residence.-16 Toltollah Lane, Calcutta. ABDUL LATIF AGĦA JOHAR, Khán Bahádur. The title is personal; was conferred by the Carnatic Nawáb, and recognised by Government 16th December 1890. The Khán Bahadur also bears the Carnatic titles of Asad Jang Said-ud-daulá. Residence.-Arabia. ABDUL LATIF LONDE, KAZI, Shams-ul-Ulama. The title is personal, and was conferred on 2nd January 1888, for eminent oriental scholarship. It entitles the Kazi to rank in Darbár immediately after titular Nawabs. Residence.-Bombay. ABDUL MAHMUD KHAN, Khán Bahadur. Has done good service in the Medical Department, Bengal; and received the title on 1st January 1891, as a personal distinction. Residence.-Calcutta. ABDUL (ABDUR) RAHIM HAKIM, Khán Bah&dur. The title is personal, and was conferred on 6th April 1882. Residence.-Bushire. ABDUL (ABDUR) RAHIM, SHAIKH, Khán Bahddur. The title is personal, and was conferred on 20th May 1890, for good service in the Medical Department. Residence.-Bengal. ABDUL (ABDUR) RAHIM KHAN, Khán Bahádur. The title is personal, and was conferred on 1st January 1877. Residence.-Bannu, Punjab. ABDUL (ABDUR) RAHMAN, Khán Bahadur. The Khán Bahadur is a Deputy Commissioner in the district of Shimoga, Mysore, under the government of His Highness the Mahárájá of Mysore, and received the title as a personal distinction on 25th May 1892. Residence. Shimoga, Mysore. ABDUL (ABDUR) RAUF, MAULAVI, Shams-ul-Ulama. The title is personal, and was conferred on 20th May 1890, for distinction in oriental learning. It entitles him to take rank in Darbár immediately after titular Nawabs. Residence.-Patna, Bengal. ABDUL (ABDUR) RAZZAK, Khán Bahádur. The title is personal, and was conferred on 1st June 1888, for distinguished medical service. Residence.-Jeddah, ABDUL (ABDUS) SAMAD, Khán Bahádur The title is personal, and was conferred on 16th February 1887. ABDUL VASA, Khán Bahadur. Born 1843; a member of the Carnatic family, being the son-in-law of His late Highness Zahir-ud-daulá, the second of the titular Princes of Arcot ; was granted the personal title of Khán Bahádur in 1875. Residence.-Madras. ABDUL WAHAB, MAULAVI, Khán Bahádur. The The title is personal, and was conferred on 16th February 1887. Maulavi's ancestors are said to have come from Kandahár in the 10th century, and to have settled at Delhi. The family afterwards removed to Echoli in the Meerut district; and one of his ancestors having been killed by Ragbars in the 17th century, his heirs were granted the village of Echoli by firmán of the Emperor of Delhi. In course of time this grant passed into the hands of the Ráni of Landhaura. Abdul Wahab has rendered very distinguished service in the Police Department, and has been publicly commended and rewarded on many occasions. He is District Superintendent of Police at Ballia. Residence.-Meerut, North-Western Provinces. ABDUL WAHAB, HAJI, Khán Bahádur. This gentleman (who, as the title of Háji implies, has performed the Háj or Pilgrimage to Mecca) is connected with the Carnatic family; and his title, conferred by the Carnatic Nawáb, was recognised by Government as a personal one in 1890. Residence.-Madras. ABDULLA walad GHULAM MURTAZA KHAN, Mir. The title is hereditary, the Mir being a descendant of one of the Chiefs of Sind at the time of the annexation. Residence.—Shikárpur, Sind. ABDULLA KHAN, Nawáb. The title is hereditary, and the Nawáb Abdulla Khán was specially selected to succeed to it in August 1881. The title had been recognised 30th July 1875. Residence.-Dera Ismail Khán, Punjab. ABDULLA KHAN, Khán Saheb. The title is personal, and was conferred on 16th February 1887, on the occasion of the Jubilee of the reign of Her Most Gracious Majesty. Residence.-Sibi, Baluchistan. ABDULLA KHAN, Khán Saheb. The title is personal, and was conferred on 2nd January 1888. ABDUS SUBHAN, Khán Bahadur. Born in 1849; has been granted the personal title of Khán Bahádur for good service under the Police Department of Madras. Residence.-Madura, Madras Presidency. ABDUS SUBHAN, SAYYID, CHAUDHRI, Nawáb. Granted the title of Nawáb, as a personal distinction, 2nd January 1893. Residence.-Bogra, Bengal. ABHAI CHANDRA DAS, Rai Bahádur. The title is personal, and was conferred on 23rd May 1888, for good service as Deputy Magistrate and Deputy Collector of the 24-Parganás. Residence.-10 Shama Charan Dey's Street, Calcutta. ABHAI CHARAN MITTER, Rai Bahádur. Abhai Charan Mitter is a descendant of the Mitter family of Charimandel in Vikrámpur, Dacca, originally imported from Rarh and stated to have been located in Charimandel by Chand Rai and Kedar Rai, the ruling Kayastha Sabas of Vikrámpur. He is ninth in descent from Devaki Nandan Mitter, who first migrated to Charimandel. Born on the 12th May 1839. His father's name was Ram Kinker Mitter. He did meritorious service in the first Lushai Expedition, both as an explorer and as a contractor for transport; and was kept for some time as a hostage by the Lushais. His services were equally valuable to Government in the last Chin-Lushai Expedition, when he supplied boats, coolies, and other means of transport, notwithstanding the difficulties caused by a severe outbreak of cholera. Was rewarded with the title on 1st January 1891. Residence. Chittagong Hill Tracts. ABID ALI BAHADUR, KAMR KADR MIRZA, Prince. This is the courtesy title of the eldest son of the late King of Oudh. Residence.-Calcutta, Bengal. ABINAS CHANDRA BANERJI, Rai Bahádur. Born 1846. Son of Babu Navin Chandra Banerji, of Bali, in the district of Howrah, Bengal. Educated in the Free Church Institution, Calcutta ; entered the service of His Highness the Mahárájá of Patiála, 1866; appointed Director of Public Instruction, 1869; A.D.C. and Private Secretary to His Highness, 1875; worked for the organisation of the Bali Sádhárani Sabha, a Public Association recognised by the Government, and made Secretary thereof, 1882. In 1883 was elected Vice-Chairman of the Bali Municipality. In 1887, on the occasion of Her Majesty's Jubilee, received the title of Rai Bahadur for good service; elected Chairman of the Bali Municipality in 1890. Is an Honorary Magistrate. Residence.-Bali, Howrah, Bengal. ABU SAID, Khán Bahádur. A member of the Carnatic family, and styled Zahir-ud-din Khán Bahádur. The title was conferred by the Nawáb of the Carnatic, and was recognised as a personal one by Government in 1890. Residence.-Madras. ABU TURAB FARRUKH MIRZA BAHADUR, Prince. This is the courtesy title of the fifteenth son of the late King of Oudh. Residence.-Calcutta, Bengal. ABUBAKR, BEARI, Khán Bahádur. Granted the title of Khán Bahádur, as a personal distinction, 2nd January 1893. Residence.-Mangalore, Madras. ABUL ALI DARAGAH MIRZA BAHADUR, Prince. This is the courtesy title of the twentieth son of the late King of Oudh. Residence.-Calcutta, Bengal. ABUL HASAN, MAULAVI, Shams-ul-Ulama. The title is personal, and was conferred on 16th February 1887, for eminence as an oriental scholar. It entitles him to take rank in Darbár immediately after titular Nawabs. Residence.-Lucknow, Oudh. ABUL KHAIR MUHAMMAD ABDUS-SUBHAN, MAULAVI, Khán Bahddur. Son of Nawáb Abdul Latif Khán Bahádur, C.I.E., of Calcutta. Born 27th September 1857. Traces his descent from the celebrated Generalissimo of Islam, Khalid Ibn Walid, entitled the "Sword of God," who died in the twenty-first year of the Hijrah. Shah Ain-ud-din of Baghdad, a most learned saint, came to India first. Kazi Abdur Rasul was made Kazi by the Court of Delhi and sent to Bengal, and the family settled in the Faridpur district. Kazi Fakir Muhammad, one of his descendants, was a leading pleader of the Sadar Diwáni and Nizámat Adálat at Calcutta, and was a great oriental scholar, being the author of several works, chief among which was an universal history in Persian, called the Jámi-ut-Tawárikh. His son is the Nawáb Abdul Latif Bahádur (q.v.), the father of the subject of the present notice. The Khán Bahádur was educated at the Calcutta Madrasa and the Presidency College, Calcutta, where he was a scholar, prizeman, and medallist. Received the title of "Khán Bahádur" with his appointment as a Deputy Magistrate and Deputy Collector, on the 10th September 1884. Vested with first-class Magisterial powers, 1888; appointed Secretary of the District Committee of Public Instruction at Arrah (Shahabad), 1886; a Member and Vice-Chairman of the District Board, Champarun, 1887; and a Municipal Commissioner of Patna, 1891. Married, 24th August 1889, Bibi Najmoon-Neesa Khanum, fourth daughter of Chowdhry Muhammad Rasheed Khán, Khán Bahadur of Nattore, district Rájsháhi. Residence.-Gya, Bengal. ACHAL SINGH (of Kaimahra), Rájá. Born 15th June 1880, and succeeded Rájá Narpat Singh in 1886. The title is hereditary. The Rájá of Kaimahra represents the elder branch of the Janwar family, the Rájá of Oel representing the junior branch. They were originally Chauhán Kshatriyas in the service of the Sayyids of Piháni, having migrated from Rájputána in the 16th century. In the time of Sayyid Khurd, in 1553, their ancestor Jamni Khán obtained the post of Chaudhri of Kheri, with the right to levy a cess on all the lands in that Parganá. At a later period, when Than Singh was head of the family, he lived at Oel, with the title of Rai. Ajab Singh, who was the uncle and predecessor of the grandfather of the present Rájá, in 1837 was acknowledged as Rájá by the tribe, and the title was confirmed as hereditary in 1864. Sleeman states that the Rájá of Oel attempted to seize the estates of his kinsman, Jodha Singh of Kaimahra, grandfather of the present Rájá. The mother of the latter is the Ráni Ranikunwar. Residence.-Kheri, Oudh. ADARJI JAMSHEDJI, Khán Saheb. The title is personal, and was conferred on 20th October 1885. AFGHANISTAN, His Highness the Amir of. His Highness Sir Abdur Rahman Khán, G.C.S.I., Amir of Afghanistan, was born about the year 1843, and was placed on the throne by the British authorities on the 22nd July 1880. He is a younger son of the late Amir Sher Ali Khán, Amir of Kabul, and lived for some years as an exile, but was |