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 Index of Indigo Planters - Behar 1908 - C

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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  Stewart    
Forename  W.M.    
Chapter  Tirhoot and Its Inhabitants of the Past    
Sub-title  Biographical sketch: W.M. Stewart    
Page nos.  288    
Description  Came out to India to his relative, Mr. Malloy, who was a solicitor in Calcutta in the 1840s. Stewart was �sent up to Shahabad, and thence to his cousin, Tom Poe, at Dulsingserai, which place he eventually got the management of.� Started an interloping factory called Begum Serai, 1861. Stewart next �purchased a share in Jeetwarpore from Mr. J. Beckwith, and a few years after came to manage at this factory.� Was not a successful manager: the failure of the Agra Bank �brought him to a standstill as his capital was all borrowed,� 1866; had to appear in front of Sir Barnes Peacock and Mr. Justice Phayre in the Insolvent Court�Stewart lost everything he had. �Eventually through his wife�s interest he got a berth under the Court of Wards over the Kunowlie Estate. During the famine of 1873, he became a partner in a carrying company to carry famine grain from the south of Mozufferpore to the north of Tirhoot. In this he cleared a large sum of rupees. He then bought a tea garden at Kotegarh near Simla, but this did not prove a good spec.� Other investments proving equally unfortunate, had to sell out of his tea garden. Again got work to manage a native�s estates near Mirzapore, where he died from an attack of small-pox.    
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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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