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10 WHO^S WHO IN INDIA and English and Indian history. He did not seriously take to the profession of law for which he had qualified himself but belonging to the leisured classes, as he did, he thought it more becoming to devote his energies to public duties. He is a trustee and a member of the Managing Committee of the Agra College which has now been long under non- official management with excellent results. He is the Vice-Chairman of the Agra District Board and as his numerous questions and speeches in the Council show, he has thoroughly mastered the details of the work entrusted to the District Board in the province of Agra and the financial and other questions connected therewith. As an Honorary Magistrate, he has taken an active share in the administration of the Criminal law in the district where he lives. But his chief activities lie in the improvement of agriculture and the condition of those engaged in it. He has established two village banks, several model farms and is the Honorary Secretary of the Agricultural Associations of the Mainpuriand the Agra Districts. Two of the farms which he has established are devoted, mainly, to the production of wheat and cotton, a third is intended chiefly to show commercial results, a fourth for the trial of new crops and a fifth in the Agra District for experimental purposes. The Raja has some excel- lent ideas on the subject of giving an agricultural education to village boys which he has given expression to in the speeches that he made in the Council from time to time. He thinks, and rightly too, that a purely literary education is lost on boys who, in their maturer years, would be engaged in agricultural pursuits and he thinks that nature study and the intelligent appreciation of village surroundings and know- ledge of everything about them were a much better education for these boys than that which is noVv actually imparted in the village schools. The Raja has recently started an Agricultu- ral School on these lines and the head of the Agricultural Department in the United Provinces rightly remarks that his department is keenly interested in the venture. Address : Kotla, Agra District.