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length—at his own expense of upwards of one Lac of Rupees conformably 
to the wish of Lord Clive and constructed a wide road leading to his 
dwelling-house, called Rajah Nobocrishna’s Street, by purchasing grounds 
at a considerable costand paved and repaired it at his own expense during 
his existence, and rendered great assistance in establishing House Tax 
in Calcutta and obtained a Talookdary Grant for Mowza Sootanooty, 
Bagbazar and Hogulcoondy in 1778 from the Hon’ble Company in ex¬ 
change for Mouza Nowparah, &c., belonging to him, whereby most part 
of the respectable and opulent native gentlemen of Calcutta became his 
tenants, and made a settlement for the District of Burdwan in 1780 
and preserved the sources of Government Revenue as well as the Estate 
of Moharajah Dheraj Tejchunder Bahadoor during his minority. He 
supported and assisted his numerous kindred and relations as well as 
respectable Cooleens or individuals of eminent descent and Pundits or 
learned men of Bengal of renown and encouraged all kinds of Arts and 
Sciences and gratified the wishes of Actors, Dancers and Singers from 
different parts of the World. He was the leader of fashion and model 
of imitation to the native community of this Metropolis and received 
the first reverence as well as Chaplet and Sandal before others at any 
Assembly he or his family was present agreeably to the Hindu custom. 
His house was honoured with the presence of almost all the former 
Nowwabs, Soobadars, Royrayns, Governor and Rajahs. He died on 
the 22nd November, 1797, leaving a large Estate, both real and personal, 
amounting to one crore of Rupees more or less, and two legal heirs 
or representatives, viz. : 
1st, Baboo Gopeemohun Deb, who was third son of Moharajah Nobo- 
crishna’s eldest brother—Ramsundra Deb, and adopted by the Moha¬ 
rajah for his son, agreeably to the Hindu Law, and 2nd, Moharaja 
Rajcrislma Bahadoor, who was born some years after the adoption and 
died on the 19th of August, 1823. Gopeemohun Deb has only one son 
named Radhakant Deb (who is the Author of the Bengalee Spelling 
Book, and Sanscrit Dictionary, entitled Sabda Calpa Druma and a Dir¬ 
ector of the Vidyalaya or Hindu College, Member of the Calcutta School 
Book Society, Secretary and Member of the Calcutta School Society and 
Vice-President of the Agricultural Society). Maharaja Rajcrishna has 
left eight sons, of whom Baboo Sivacrishna Deb is the eldest. 
Note by Babu Nilmani Mukerjea , dated 24<th July , 1899. 
“ About 30 years ago, when I visited the English School at Sarisa, 
near Diamond Harbour as Deputy Inspector of Schools, I met somv 
members of the Bose family of that village, and our conversation turned 
on one occasion upon the antecedents of Maharaja Nabakrishna Deb. I 
