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Date transcribed2011-08-00
Transcribed byPeter Bailey
CommentNote that notables of Indian, Afghan, etc. origin do not always follow the alphabetical name patterns established by Buckland in his original work.

Surname  Mukerji    
First Name(s)  Raja Dakhinaranjan    
Birth Year  1814    
Death Year  1878    
Entry  Born Oct. 1814 : son of Jagamohan Mukerji : grandson of Babu Surji Kumar Tagore, of Calcutta : educated at the Hindu College : was a linguist : practised as a Vakil in the Sadr Court : joined in establishing the Bengal Spectator, an Anglo-Indian Periodical : was a member of the British Indian Association and a zamindar of the Jessore District : was Tax Collector of the Calcutta Municipality, and Diwan of the Nawab Nazim of Murshidabad : received, in 1859, the forfeited estate of Sankarpurin Rai Bareli, in Oudh, from Lord Canning, fot mutiny services : the first Secretary of the Oudh Talukdars' Association : helped to establish the Canning College at Lucknow : made a Raja, 1871, for his philanthropy and patriotism : established a vernacular newspaper and purchased the Luknow Times as the organ of the Oudh Talukdars : gave some of the land and laboured zealously for the Bethune Female School : died July 11, 1878.     
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