1902.] S. 0. Hill— Account of late Maharaja Nubkissen Bahadur . 
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for doubting the family tradition, 1 for it is certain that Nubkissen’s 
friends were influential people at Fulta, and it was only the inhabitants 
of the immediate neighbourhood who could hope to correspond with the 
English without attracting the notice of the Nawab’s spies. How this 
brought him to the notice of Lord (then Colonel) Clive is explained in 
a note by Babu Nilmani Mukerjea, late Principal of the Sanskrit College, 
Calcutta, which I append to the Account. 
S. Charles Hill, 
Officer in charge of the Records of the Govt, of India. 
January 14 th, 1902, 
Account of the late Muharaja Nubkissen Bahadur required by and deliv¬ 
ered to A , Sterling , Esq., Persian Secretary to Government on the 
30 th April , 1825. 
As an account of this family from its first founder and his im¬ 
mediate descendants would contain an immoderate length of detail (they 
having held respectable situations under the former sovereigns of Ben¬ 
gal) I will begin with his eighteenth descendant named Daveedas Muj- 
mooadar; this individual was appointed Kanoongoe of Pergnnnah 
Mooragacha, &c., in the District of 24-Pergunnahs, where he resided 
having removed his dwelling-house from his native village of Cansona, 
near Moorshidabad. On the demise of Daveedas Mujmooadar his sons 
Sahasracsha Mujmooadar and Rucminikant Byabaherta presented them¬ 
selves to Nowwab Mahabutgunge 2 at Moorshidabad, who was pleased 
to appoint the former to his late father’s office, and the latter a Manager 
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of the Estate Casubram Roy Chowdhoory then minor Zemindar of 
Pergunnah Mooragacha, &c. After the death of Rucminikant Byabaherta 
his son Rameswar Byabaherta having succeeded his father, paid into 
the Nowwab’s Treasury the Revenues of the above Pergunnah amounting 
to more than the former settlement, in consequence of which Casubram 
Roy having attained to full age confined Ramswor Byabaherta in his own 
house, on account of which Ramcliurn Byabaherta (son of Rameswor 
Byabaherta) went to Moorshidabad and introduced himself to the 
Royrayn 3 Chain Roy and delivered in writing in the Nowwab’s Record 
1 The Rev. J. Long, as Mr. Ghose points out, mentions Nubkissen’s assistance 
of the English as an undoubted fact. Governor Verelst in his “ View of the English 
Government in Bengal ” writes: “Nubkissen is a native Hindu, who had been 
extremely zealous in the English cause during the troubles preceding Meer Jaffer’s 
elevation to the subahdarry.” This, I think, is as near as we can get to a complete 
confirmation of the family tradition. 
2 Mahabat Jang or Alawardi Khan, Nawab of Bengal. 
3 Rayrayan. A title bestowed by the Muhammadans on Hindu noblemen. 
