SUPPLEMENT 191 work) is an Assistant Surgeon, and Lecturer in the Lahore Medical College. The second son, Rai Bahadur Hari Kishen Kaul, M. A., whose biography is to be found in Part III. page 1 28, of this work, is a Deputy Commissioner in the Punjab. Din an Daya Kishen Kaul was for some time Private Secretary to the Maharaja of Kashmir, and received the title of Rai Saheb. He was created C. 1. E. on 26th June, 1908. Address : Alwar, Rajputana. SABNIS, RAGHUNATH VYANKAJI, b. a., *Rao Bahadur, Diwan of Kolhapur State, was born on 1st April 1857, an ^ educated at Kolhapur High School and Elphinstone College, Bombay. He is a Chandraseniya Kayastha Prabhu ; and be- longs to a family which migrated from the Konkan in the time of the Maratha supremacy. In recognition of services rendered the members of the family were honoured with hereditary military service in connection with the Gajendragod Fort, under Bijapur. Diwan R. V. Sabnis entered the Bombay Educational Department in 1878, and rose to be Deputy Educational Inspector. In 1893 he became tutor to H. H. the Chhatrapati Maharaja of Kolhapur. When His Highness was invested with full powers Mr. Sabnis was selected to be Huzur Chit- nis. In 1896 he was appointed Chief Revenue Officer of Kolhapur; he then resigned the British service. In 1898 he was appointed to the post he now holds with credit. In 1905 he was honoured with the title of Rao Bahadur, and the Maha- raja has also recognized his services by grants of landed property. He has acted as Plague and Famine Commissioner in the State, and as Director of Public Instruction he has assisted His Highness in spreading education in his State. He was presented to the late King-Emperor at his Coronation in 1902. He is a member of the Bombay Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society, the Royal Society of Arts, and President of the Kolhapur Society for the Encouragenent of the Depressed Classes. Recreations: Tennis, riding. Address: Kolhapur State, Bombay Presidency.
