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 Index of Indigo Planters - Behar 1908 - C

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Date transcribed2011-00-00
Transcribed byAlison Kilpatrick
CommentIndex of Indigo Planters in Bihar taken from "History of Behar Indigo Factories; Reminiscences of Bihar; Tirhoot
and its inhabitants of the past.". by Minden Wilson 1908.

Surname  Brown    
Forename  Harry    
Chapter  Tirhoot and Its Inhabitants of the Past    
Sub-title  Biographical sketch: Harry Brown    
Page nos.  281    
Description  A relation of David Brown. Brown had been at several of the outworks of Motipore Factory; eventually settled down as manager of Rajkund Factory. �Old Harry had bolted from home and enlisted as a gunner in the Shekawatti battalion. He was a most amusing old gentleman and always had some extraordinary yarn to tell.� Was sent up by Dr. Begg to look after Begg�s seed business after the Christie family were killed at Cawnpore by the mutineers [i.e., during the Mutiny of 1857-58]. Was at Cawnpore when the disaster to the Queen�s troops took place; had to take shelter within the entrenchments. Contracted a bad fever at Rajkund; died at the Planters� Club.    
Indexer Notes  An outwork was an outlying indigo factory, a subsidiary of a head factory or �concern�.    
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Index of Indigo Planters in Bihar taken from "History of Behar Indigo Factories; Reminiscences of Bihar; Tirhoot
and its inhabitants of the past. History of Behar Light Horse
Volunteers". by Minden Wilson 1908.
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