Catalogue of the Pictures and Sculptures in the Collection of the Maharaja Tagore

His objections to the educational tax were based partly upon the terms of the permanent settlement of Bengal and partly upon the impolicy and injustice in his opinion of requiring the landholders to defray the cost of elementary schools for all classes of the rural populaticn. [...] His coquests were easy and without bloodshed ; the people easily submitted and gratefully elevated to the rank of a god the hero who taught them the use of the vine the cultvation of the earth and the manner of making honey. [...] The fir-tree the yew-tree the fig-tree and the ivy and the vine were sacred to him ; and the goat was generally sacrificed to him on account of the great propensity of that animal to destroy the vine. [...] The three persons of the name of Bacchus which Diodorus mentions are the one who conquered the Indies and is surnamed the bearded Bacchus ; a son of Jupiter and Proserpine who was represented with horns ; and the son of Jupiter and Semele called the Bacchus of Thebes. [...] He was a M. L. C. Bengal 1870; President of the British and Indian Association 1871 and 1891 ; of the Syndicate of Calcutta University 1881 ; of the Faculty of Arts 1882 ; and pf Council of Asiatic Society 1882 ; appointed member of the Supreme Legislative Council' of India 1877 and was re-appointed in 1879 and 1881 ; was a Justice of the Peace Calcutta ; a Trustee of the Imperial Indian