194 WHO'S WHO IN INDIA his education has been mostly in Sanskrit literature of which he is a very distinguished scholar. After leaving the Queen's College, Benares, where he received most of his education, in 1872, he served, for about 4 years, as a Sanskrit Teacher in the Jhalrapatan State School in Rajputana where his work was very highly appreciated. Thereafter he came to Banelli estate in the Purnea District where he served as Head Pandit for sometime. In 1866, when the present Maharaja Rameshwar Singh Bahadur succeeded to the Raj of Darbhanga^ Pandit Parmeshwar Jha was appointed as a State Pandit and in this capacity he has been doing his work, steadily and silently to the great satisfaction of the Maharajao He is a student of great erudition and a distinguished Grammarian. He has been an examiner in Sanskrit Grarh- mar in the Vyakarn Upadhi Examination of the Calcutta University ; is a Mahopdeshak (distingushed preacher) of the Sanatan Dliarma Mahamandal. He is the author of more than a dozen publications in Sanskrit Grammar and literature. Address : Librarian, Rajj Sanskrit Library, Darbhanga. DhanpAT Rai, C. I. E., Rai Bahadur, Sardar Bahadur Major — born in 1858, belongs to a high caste Khatri-Sikh family of Peshawar and is ^descended from the lineage of Diwan Gandamal, the Governor of Kashmir during the Sikh rule. He entered the Indian Government Transport during the first phase of the Afghan war in 1878 and was present at the capture of Sherpur in Kabul. In Government service, he earned his first laurel in the Soudan Campaign, 1885, and was made a Rai Bahadur for his good services. His services, were lent to the Jaipur Darbar by the Government of India in 1890 to command the Imperial Service Transport Train, then under organisation, for 5 years, but as his services were found to be very valuable the Jaipur Darbar retained his services for ever. The high standard of acknowledged efficiency which the Jaipur Transport Corps has attained is mainly due to his
