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Dictionary of Indian Biography D to F
Date transcribed | 2011-03-01 | Transcribed by | Peter Bailey | Comment | Note that notables of Indian, Afghan, etc. origin do not always follow the alphabetical name pattern established by Buckland in his original work. |
| Surname | Deb | | First Name(s) | Radha Kanta | | Titles | Sir | | Year of Birth | 1784 | | Year of Death | 1867 | | Entry | Born in Calcutta, March 11, 1784, son of Raja Gopi Mohan Deb,and great grandson of Munshi, afterwards Maharaja, Naba Krishna Deb, Persian Secretary and Diwan to Lord Clive : received his English education at Cumming's Calcutta Academy : studied Sanskrit, Arabic, Persian : his life was devoted to cultivating and disseminating knowledge : was the first modern Hindu to advocate home female education, zealously established native schools, and compiled in 36 years a comprehensive Sanskrit dictionary, which was acknowledged by learned European Societies, and by Queen Victoria with a medal. In religion he was rigidly conservative and strictly orthodox, while devoted to the cause of education : wrote a Bengali reader. He was a Director of the Hindu College : Secretary of the School-book Society, established in 1818: prominently connected with the Government Sanskrit College, and the Bengal Asiatic Society : Honorary Magistrate and Justice of the Peace for Calcutta in 1855 : President of the British Indian Association from 1851 until his death at Brindaban on April 19, 1867 : Raja Bahadur on July 10, 1837, and K.C.S.I. in 1866 : was an active supporter of all public movements. |
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A List of eminent persons who served in British India, together with short biographical notes of each
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