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1 64 WHO'S WHO IN INDIA Panah Ali Shah, Khan Saheb, Inspector of Police, Larkhana District, Sind. Title conferred in January, 1914. Address : Larkhana, Sind. Sarai Gawhar Khan, Khan Saheb, Zemindar of Khair- pur Juso, Taluka Kambar, Larkhana District, Sind, in the Bombay Presidency. The title of Khan Saheb was conferred on him in January, 1914. Ram Ranjan Chackravarti (of Hetampur, Bengal) Maharaja Bahadur, was born on i8th January, 1851, and educated, under the supervision of the Court of Wards, in the Benares College. He is the great-grandson of Radha Nath Chackravarti, the founder of the Hetampur Raj family. He has built and endowed several temples at Hetampur and Brindaban. A well equipped Arts College styled after the name of his father, Krishna Chandra, an English High School and a Sanskrit Tol at Hetampur, bear testimony to his munificence in the cause of the educational advance- ment of his community. He also established and maintains the Hetampur Raj Dispensary where medical aid is given free. In 1875, Lord Northbrook conferred on him the title of Raja for the help rendered by him to the Government and the people during the famine of 1874, and subsequently in 1877, during the administration of Lord Lytton he was invested with the title of Bahadur, and in June, 191 2, he was made a Maharaja. A brief notice of his biography appears in the Principal volume of Who's Who in India, Part VIII, page 38. Address. Hetampur, Birbhum District. Raj Nath ChOWDHRI, Rai Saheb, Deputy Superintend- ent of Police, born in the year 1865, comes of an old Kanya- kubj Brahmin family of Colgong, District Bhagalpur. For his long and meritorious services in the Police Department with special reference to his detective ability, Rai Raj Nath