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ganj from Qadir ’Ali, Afzinganj from Afzin, and Iqbdlganj 
from Iqbal ’Ali. 
3. There are at present no Rajahs of Kharakpur in the dis- 
trict, all their estates including the jagirs granted by the em- 
peror having been sold a few years ago by Mr. Latour by public 
auction, which led to long and harassing litigation. There are 
some illegitimate children of the last Rajah still surviving. I may 
as well mention here the remaining Rajahs of Kharakpur subse- 
quent to the table given above. Faiz ’Ali succeeded Muzaffar 
’Ali, and was succeeded by Qadir ’Ali, who was succeeded in his 
turn by Iqbal ’Ali, who again was succeeded by Rahmat ’Ali, 
with whom the line became extinct.’’ 
The following papers were read :— 
I.—Sryze or press in Ancient Inp14, by Babu Rajendralala 
Mitra,—(Abstract.) 
Buchanan Hamilton, in his ‘“ Eastern India,” first started the 
opinion that the ancient Hindus knew not the art of preparing 
needle-made dresses ; and it has since been adopted by Dr. Forbes 
Watson, Mrs. Manning, Dr. John Muir and others. The pre- 
mises, however, on which this opinion is founded, appear to be 
untenable. Mention is made of the needle and sewing in the Rig 
Veda, which dates from twelve centuries before the Christian era 
according to the lowest computation, and.the existence of those 
words in the language cannot be accounted for, except on the sup- 
position that the people who used them knew and had what they 
meant. Itis also argued that it is very unlikely, that the heroes of 
the Vedic age, who were able to forge, and were in the habit of 
using, armour and mail coats, never came to the idea of fashioning 
their clothes into made dresses, References are likewise made to 
the Raméyana, the Mahabharata and other ancient Sanskrit works to 
show that they allude to dresses which could not have been other 
than needle-made and shaped. The most overwhelming proofs on 
the subject are, however, met with in sculptures. Though the bulk 
of the human figures at Sanchi, Amaravati and Orissa are nudes or 
semi-nudes, still there are some which bear unmistakeable evidence 
of the antiquity of Indian made dresses. Among the Sénchi bas- 
reliefs there are several figures dressed in tunics which could never 
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