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28 WHO'S WHO IN INDIA Kanhai Prasad, Dube Bahadur ; Assistant Commandant, Imperial Service Sappers, Sirmoor State, Nahan. He is about 60 years of age. He entered the Government Military Service when he was a young man and rose to the post of Subedar in the First Bengal Infantry. After his retirement from this regiment he was taken in the Sirmoor Durbar's service. He was sent to England by this Durbar on the- occasion of the Coronation of King George V in 19 10. In appreciation of his long services in the military line he was made a Bahadur" in June, 1912. Address: Nahan, Sirmoor State. Pandit Radha Krishna, Rai Bahadur ; Honorary Curator, Provincial Museum of Archaeology, Muttra, U. P., was born in March, 1868. He belongs to a family of Saraswat Brahmins of the Punjab. His father had been an officer in the Government P. W. D. and subsequently a contractor. He (Pandit Radha Krishna's father) rendered excellent services to the British officers during the Mutiny of 1857. In 1885, Pandit Radha Krishna met the late General Sir Alexander Cunningham, R. E., the father of Indian Archaeology and since then he has been very keenly interested in this science. His services to the Department of Archaeology have been very highly appreciated by the Government from time to time and in June, 1912, he was made a Rai Bahadur. A gold medal was awarded to him by His Royal Highness, the Crown Prince of Germany and Prussia, through the Chief of the British staff in the camp of the said Prince in India. The Royal Academy of Sciences in Baveria granted him a silver medal and made him a bene merenti in recognition of the valuable assistance he rendered it in the making of the Indian Collection, in the Royal Ethnographic Museum of Munich, so rich. Pandit Radha Krishna is a Member of the Muttra Municipal Board, also of the Provincial Museum Managing Committee, Lucknow, and of the Punjab Historical Society. Address : Muttra.