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sister of Seth Manih Chand , of Murshidabad. The youngest son of 
this marriage, Jagat Seth Fatah Chand, was adopted by his uncle 
the Seth, and two of his elder brothers having been killed in the sack 
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of Dill! by Nadir Shah t the family settled in Murshidabad. Fatah 
Chand’s grandson Jagat Seth Mah’tab Ray was arrested with his 
cousin Raja Dal Chand by Nawab Kasim \All Khan for taking up the 
cause of the British and joining Lord Clive. Baja Dal Chand 
escaped and reached Banaras , where he ended his days under the 
protection of the Nawab Wazlr of Andh. 
Baja Siva Prasad is the son of Babu Gopl Chand and great grand¬ 
son of Baja Dal Chand. He lost his father when only eleven or twelve 
years of age, and was brought up by his mother and grandmother, 
the latter of whom, Bib! Ratan Kuar (No. 376), was one of the most 
learned women of her age. He partly owes his education, though 
very slightly, to Banaras College, then only an English Seminary, but 
he is emphatically an example of a self-made and self-instructed man. 
Of his grandmother he says, with characteristic modesty, “ the best 
part of the little knowledge I may be credited with, I acquired from 
her.” In his youth he was strongly anti-European in his ideas, and 
hence in his seventeenth year he accepted the post of Wakll to the late 
Maharaj of Bharat 1 pur to attend the court of Colonel Sutherland, the 
then Governor-Generals Agent at Aj’mer. He says “ My expenses 
under the Maharajah were somewhat about Bs. 5,000 per mensem, 
but I found the Dar’bar there rotten to the core, and as hopeless as 
anything can be on earth. I became disgusted, resigned, returned, 
and wanted to become an ascetic ; but my friends commenced 
taunting me. They called me a fool and a mad man. They said 
< Patayg achchhd charhd thd , lekin got khd gay a ,‘a paper kite 
had got fine and high, but was swooping down again,’ or ‘Andhe ke 
hath hater lag gal thl ‘ a quail had fallen into the hand of a blind 
man.’ 1 I could not bear this, and I made up my mind again to serve, 
but some one who was greater than the Maharajah of Bharat’pur. I 
joined Lord Hardinge’s camp before Firoz’pur. Mud’ki had been 
fought, and Sobraon was about to be fought. There the treatment I 
received opened my eyes. I vowed I would never serve a Native 
again.” He rose to be Mir Munshi of the Simla Agency when 
Mr. Edwards became Superintendent of the Protected Hill States there, 
and he looks back to that period as the best part of his life. When 
1 That is, excessive lack. It usually takes several men in full possession 
of their eyes to net a single quail. 
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