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Twelve Men of Bengal in the Nineteenth Century

1927

HIS-RAM MOHAN ROY 33 UNWEARIED LABOUR TO PROMOTE THE SOCIAL MORAL AND POLITICAL CONDITION OF THE PEOPLE OF INDIA HIS EARNEST ENDEAVOURS TO SUPPRESS IDOLATRY AND THE RITE OF SUTEE AND HIS CONSTANT ZEALOUS ADVOC tCY OF WHATEVER TENDED TO AVANCE THE GLORY OF GOD AND THE WELFARE OF MEN LIVE IN THE GRATEFUL REMEMBRANCE OF HIS COUNTRYMEN. [...] Of the two-ninths of the income assigned to the Mutwallis but which are now at the disposal of the Government the Governor-General in Council assigns one-ninth to the agent or Mutwalli appointed by the Government but he does not deem it necessary to appoint a second Mutwalli or to appropriate the second ninth share assigned by the testator to the co-trustee nominated in the original will. [...] In this manner the Governor-General in Council conceives that the pious and beneficent purposes of 'uhe founder of the Hooghly endowment will best be fulfilled and under the latitude given for the deteminations of the specific uses to which any surplus funds of the estate are to be appointed he cannot see that the assignment of the surplus which has arisen in tnis instance partly from the del [...] HIM MAHOMED MOHSIN 57 of litigation and partly from the fines realised from the mode of management adapted to purposes of education in the manner stated will be any deviation from the provision of the dead.' In the following year the Hooghly College was opened with the surplus funds at the disposal of Government. [...] This was the natural tendency of the sudden awakening that had come to Bengal in the middle of the nineteenth century but from the first Ramtanu threw the whole weight of his influence on the side of moderation.
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Pages
261
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India
SARF Document ID
sarf.147220
Segment Pages Author Actions
Frontmatter
i-iv F. B. Bradley-Birt view
Ram Mohan Roy
1-34 F. B. Bradley-Birt view
Haji Mahomed Moshin
i-60 F. B. Bradley-Birt view
Ramtanu Lahiri
i-88 F. B. Bradley-Birt view
Nawab Amir Ali Khan Bahadur C.I.E.
i-100 F. B. Bradley-Birt view
Maharajadhiraj Mahtab Chand Rai Bahadur of Burdwan
i-110 F. B. Bradley-Birt view
Nawab Abdul Latif Khan Bahadur C.I.E.
i-140 F. B. Bradley-Birt view
Keshub Chandra Sen
i-172 F. B. Bradley-Birt view
Nawab Sir Khawja Abdul Ghani Mia K.C.S.I.
i-184 F. B. Bradley-Birt view
Maharaja Durga Charan Law C.I.E.
i-198 F. B. Bradley-Birt view
Nawab Bahadur Syed Walayet Ali Khan C.I.E.
i-218 F. B. Bradley-Birt view
Maharaja Sir Jotindra Mohan Tagore K.C.S.I.
i-246 F. B. Bradley-Birt view

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