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Date transcribed | 2011-05-01 | 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 | Karkaria | | First Name(s) | Rustomji Pestonji | | Year of Birth | 1869 | | Entry | Born at Bombay, May 16, 1869 : educated at St. Xavier's School and College : B.A., 1888 : Senior Fellow : Asst. Professor of English and History, 1891 : Examiner to the Bombay University in History, Geography, Logic, Moral Philosophy, Political Economy : helped to found, 1896, the Collegiate Institution : became its Principal and Professor of English Literature : his action in obtaining the recognition of private colleges led partly to the Universities Act of 1904 : Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, 1898 : M.R.A.S. Bombay, 1888 : M.R.A.S. Great Britain 1900 : Member of the American Oriental Society, 1897 : has contributed papers to many Journals of Societies, also to the Anglo-Indian and English newspapers on Indian subjects : discovered and published Carlyle's Lectures on European Literature, with notes ; author of works on Indian History and Politics, Sivaji, Akbar, Essays on English History, India under Victoria, on the Native Press, translated the Parsi Sacred Book, the Dinkard : served on Committees of the Parsi community to consider questions of Religious Education, of Social Amelioration, of admitting proselytes, and other subjects on which he has written largely. |
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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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