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WHO'S WHO IN INDIA

Nalini Bhushan Gupta, C.I.E., Bar-at-Law, was born on the 14th June, 1870, and educated in the Barisal Zilla School, the Presidency College, Calcutta and in England. He was called to the Bar at the Middle Temple in June, 1895, appointed Government Advocate of Bakarganj in 1901 and Deputy Legal Rememberancer and Director of Public Prosecution to the Government of Eastern Bengal and Assam in 1910. He has been engaged in prosecuting, on behalf of the Crown, political cases for the last 8 years. He holds zemindaris in the Districts of Bakarganj and Khulna and is a member of the Calcutta Club. He was made a Companion of the Order of the Indian Empire, in recognition of his public services in 1913. Address: Calcutta Club, 13, Russel Street, Calcutta.


Narsingh Prasad, M.A., M.R.A.S., The Hon'ble Munshi—was born on 29th January, 1874, and educated at Gorakhpur and in the Muir Central College, Allahabad, from which he took his M. A. degree in 1897 having topped the list of successful candidates in English language and literature. In 1900 he qualified himself as a Vakil of the North-Western Provinces High Court and since then has been practising as such at Gorakhpur. From 1904 to 1909 he worked as Government Pleader of Gorakhpur which office he resigned on his election to the Provincial Legislative Council. He is a member of the District and Municipal Boards of Gorakhpur and was, for some years, the Vice-Chairman of the latter. He has worked in the public cause in several capacities and was President of the Allahabad Session of the Kayasth Conference. He is on the Provincial Darbar list and is one of the few Indians who are members of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland. M. Narsingh Prasad comes of a respectable Kayasth family the members of which have previously held distinguished positions in the Government service. His family holds landed property in all the districts of the Gorakhpur Division paying a sum of more than Rs. 6,000 as Government revenue. Address: Gorakhpur.