i6 WHO'S WHO IN INDIA Examination and secure the University Norton prize for Political Economy. Mr. Shama Rao entered the service of the Mysore Government in 1885, after a few years of employment in the British service. After some years successful career in the Educational Department, he passed the Civil Service examination, instituted for the first time in Mysore, in 1892 and was appointed a probationary Assistant Commissioner in 1895. After a varied career of some years in the revenue and other departments he was appointed by Sir P. N. Krishnamurti, the then Dewan of Mysore, as his Assistant Secretary in 1901. Later, in 1905, he was appointed Registrar of Co-operative Societies in which department he gained so much experi- ence that he subsequently became the pioneer of the co- operative movement in the Mysore State. Early in 191 1, he was appointed Deputy Commissioner of the Tumkur District. In 1912, he became the Inspector-General of Education in the Mysore State and is the first Mysorean to hold this responsible post. The Government of India were pleased to confer on him the distinction of Rao Bahadur in the beginning of this year (19 14) in recognition of his meritorious services rendered in connection with the popularisation of the co-operative move- ment in the Mysore State. Mr. Shama Rao is also a literary man and is the author of Ten Years of Native Rule in Mysore" and of a history of Mysore. Address : Bangalore, Mysore State. Hari Kishen Pant, Rai Bahadur; Executive Engineer, Farrukhabad. He was made a Rai Sahib in January, 1898, in recognition of his management of the Famine Relief Works in 1896-97 and a Rai Bahadur in June, 1912, in recognition of his later services in the Public Works Department. Address : Farrukhabad. Prem Singh Bisht, Rai Sahib, Babu— Head Clerk, Agent ■and Chief Engineer's Office, Rohilkund and'Kumaon Railway. Title conferred in January, 1913. Address: Gorakhpur.
