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1902.] S. 0. Hill —Account of late Maharaja Nubkissen Bahadur. 
Nobocrishna Deb bought more grounds and built suitable buildings, and 
resided there with bis numerous family and relatives. When Ramsun- 
dra Deb became fit for business, he at first did the duties of Aumeen 
or Supervisor of Punchcote commonly called Punchet 1 and other places 
and supported his family for some years. 
In the year 1756 all the nobles and principal persons of the Pro¬ 
vinces of Bengal and Behar were dissatisfied with the tyrannical con¬ 
duct of Nowwab Seraj-ud-dowlah, whereupon Rajah Rajbnllabha 2 (who 
was a Yiadya by caste of Dacca) fled from Moorshidabad and took re¬ 
fuge at Calcutta, in consequence of which the Nowwab issued a Per- 
wannah to Mr. Drake then Governor of Calcutta, directing him to 
seize and send the Rajah to him but Mr. Drake without complying 
with this requisition answered the Perwannah stating that he would 
make the Rajah pay immediately if the Nowwab had any demands 
against him, on sending particulars of the same, upon which the 
Nowwab was very much incensed at Mr. Drake, and wrote him another 
Perwannah threatening him that if he did not deliver up the Rajah on 
receipt of the Perwannah he would send his Troops to seize the Rajah 
and to drive out the English from Bengal, in consequence of which Mr. 
Drake and other English gentlemen were thrown into perplexity, they 
not having sufficient force to repel the enemy when Rajah Rajbullabha 
assured them that all the Sirdars who were dissatisfied with the 
Nowwab would never fight the English and accordingly all the Ministers 
and Sirdars of the Nowwab joined together and sent a Persian Letter 
from Moorshidabad to Mr. Drake, by a Hurcarah 3 who delivered it with 
the instruction that it was a Letter which contained a secrecy and 
should not be read nor replied to by the agency of any Musulman 
Moonshee but that a Hindu should be employed for that purpose, for 
which reason Mr. Drake without shewing that Letter to the Company’s 
Moonshee Tajuddeen, ordered his Hurcarahs to search for and bring a 
Hindu Moonshee from Calcutta. 
On that very day Nobocrishna Deb was gone to Burrah Bazar in 
the afternoon, when one of the Hurcarahs of Mr. Drake knowing by 
inquiry that he was acquainted with the Persian language took him to 
Mr. Drake to whom Nobocrishna Deb read the Persian Letter and 
explained the contents thereof and wrote an answer to it, although he 
was then a youth attending school, yet he executed this arduous task, 
by the superior mental faculties he was endowed with and thereby met 
1 Panelist in the Manbhura District. 
2 The English account is that Rajbalav’s son Krishna Das took refuge at 
C alcutta with all his father’s treasures. 
3 Harkara, one who does every business. Here a messenger or spy. 
