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196 WHO'S WHO IN INDIA which Mr. Sanyal belongs migrated from the Raj-shahi District, Bengal, to Benares after the battle of Plassey. His great-grandfather was in the service of Rani Bhawani of Nattore and came to Benares with her and since that time the family has settled here. The title of Rai Bahadur, as a personal distinction, was conferred on Babu Abhaya Charan Sanyal in 1913 in recognition of his public services. Address: Queen's College, Benares. Bharat Singh, c. s. (Retired) Kunwar — belongs to the landed aristocracy of the Province of Agra. He is a son of Maharao Raja Banspati Singh of Bara and belongs to the clan of Baghel Rajputs, the chief representative of which, to-day, is the Ruling House of Rewah State. After receiving education at the Benares College as an inmate of the Ward's Institution, Kunwar Bharat Singh was appointed, in 1880, almost unsolicited, to the Statutory Civil Service of the United Provinces. Having passed his departmental examination by the Higher Standard in all the branches within about 4 months only of his appointment, standing first in the Judicial Branch, he was, after the usual probationary period, confirmed as a mem- ber of the covenanted Civil Service and thereafter served in various capacities from Assistant Collector to Magistrate and Collector and District and Sessions Judge, retiring, in 1907, on good service pension before completing the age or time limif. Immediately after retirement and on the advice of Sir James Latouche, the then Lieutenant-Governor of United Provinces, he took up the management and improvement of his own en- cumbered ancestral property lying under the Court of Wards and in the course of his five years administration he has paid off the entire outstanding debt of a lakh and sixty thousand. He was elected a rrxember of the United Provinces Legislative Council in 1909. He is an Honorary Magistrate with first class powers and a District Board Member. He maintains, at his own cost, a school at Shankargarh in his estate and provides scholarships to all passed students to enable them to prosecute