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SUPPLEMENT 55

Honorary Assistant Commissioner in the Karnal District. He died in 1867, being succeeded by his son, Nawab Azmat Ali Khan (whose biography will be found in Part III, page 72, of this work) who was granted the title of Nawab Bahadur in 1891 . Nawab Rustam Ali Khan is half-brother to Nawab Azmat Ali Khan, and was born in 1863. He is a provincial durbari, and on the occasion of the recent Coronation Durbar was given the personal title of Nawab Bahadur. Address: Karnal, Punjab.



Digbijai Singh, Raja, of Daiya, a notice of whom appears in Part IV, page 111, of this work, was granted the hereditary title of Raja by His Excellency the (Governor-General on the occasion of the recent Coronation Durbar.



Madana Mohana Simha, the Hon'ble Raja, Devu Garu, Zemindar of Dharkota, Member of the Madras Legislative Council, was granted the personal title of Raja on the occasion of the recent Coronation Durbar. Address : Dharkota. Madras Presidency.



Goswami, the Hon'ble Raja Kishori Lal, Rai Bahadur, whose biography appears in Part VIII, page 75, of this work, was granted the personal title of Raja on the occasion of the recent Coronation Durbar.



Ray Chaudhuri, the Hon'ble Raja Mahendra Ranjan, late Member of the Legislative Council of Eastern Bengal and Assam, was granted the personal title of Raja on the occasion of the recent Coronation Durbar. Address : Kakina, Rangpur District, Bengal.



Swami Dayal, Raja Seth, of Moizuddinpur, was born in 1868, and educated at Sitapur High School. He belongs to a Jethmal family, members of which held high offices at Delhi under the Moghal Emperors. His ancestors, Seth Murli Manohar and Seth Sita Ram, assisted the British during the Mutiny, suffering much loss of property thereby, but after order was restored their services were handsomely rewarded.