JOURNAL 
OF THE 
ASIATIC SOCIETY OF BENGAL 
Part I—HISTORY, LITERATURE, &c. 
No. 1.—1902. 
Account of late Maharaja Nublcissen Bahadur.—By S. 0. Hill, Esq. 
[ Read 5th March, 1902. ] 
A few months ago Mr. N. N. Gliose published a most interesting 
Memoir of Maharaja Nubkissen. Amongst the documents consulted for 
the compilation of this Memoir was “ An Account of the late Maharaja 
Nublcissen Bahadur , required and delivered to A. Sterling , Esq., Persian 
Secretary to Government , on the 30 th April , 1825.” 
Maharaja Nubkissen died on the 22ud November, 1797, and the 
above Account is said to have been written by Maharaja Sir Radha 
Kanta Deb Bahadur, K.O.S.I. It may therefore be taken as an authen¬ 
tic narrative of some of the leading events in the life of the celebrated 
Diwan of the Honourable East India Company. I have been permitted 
to publish it in the Journal of the Asiatic Society by the courtesy of 
Raja Binay Krishna, a descendant of Nubkissen and therefore the 
hereditary friend of the British Government whose power his ancestor 
assisted to establish. 
This all too short Account should be extremely interesting to the 
historical student not only because the early history of the British connec¬ 
tion with India is attracting so much attention at the present moment 
but because the proper understanding of Hindu character depends 
largely upon our being able to obtain side-lights illustrative of it as it 
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