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bear that he owed any debt to anybody. Although an oriental aristo¬ 
crat to the back-bone he patronised both primary and high educations. 
He established a free Entrance School in the Raj with a scholarship for 
the successful student to prosecute the higher standard, and opened nu¬ 
merous primary schools in the interior of the Raj to impart liberally a free 
education to his tenants. He fully appreciated the meritorious services 
of his servants and often encouraged them with handsome rewards. 
The kindly feelings he entertained towards them might well be exhibited 
from his telegram of condolence on the death of his faithful Dewan , 
Babu Bhubaneswar Dutt, at his residence at Cbandernagore, to his 
nephew Babu Devendra Nath Dutt, the present Dewan of the Maharani: 
“ My heart bleeds to hear of your uncle’s death. The loss is irrepar¬ 
able to the Hutwa Raj. You have got your uncle alive in me. It is I 
whose uncle is lost.” 
In July, 1890, the Maharaja lost his first son, a child of weak con¬ 
stitution, and the then Lieutenant-Governor of Bengal, Sir Stuart Bayley, 
in his letter of condolence to the Maharaja, wrote : “ The loss of the only 
heir to one of the historical houses of Behar is what I consider a pub¬ 
lic calamity.” 
It is during the regime of the late Maharaja Sir Krishna Pratap 
Shahi that the prosperity of the Hutwa Raj has reached a point un¬ 
known to any of his predecessors. The architectural aspect of the 
town of Hutwa was immensely beautified by the erection of numerous 
magnificent buildings with high towered gates and a long line of 
barracks on their wings, facing in front an extensive and tastefully laid 
out park, stud with marble statues and fountains, thus imparting an 
idea of beauty mingled with sublimity. The new palace named after 
him, Krishna Bliaban, with its magnificently furnished and decorated 
Durbar Hall which is daintily painted and guilded, and glittering with 
tastefully arranged numerous splendid crystal chandeliers, with its 
painted door-panes bearing Shakesperean characters, and its walls hung 
with oil-paintings of all the crowned kings of Europe and two big life- 
size portraits—one of the late Queen Empress and the other of himself 
attended with his faithful dewan, the late Babu Bhubaneswar Dutt— 
facing each other, is indeed a work of art and is said to be one of the 
most picturesque buildings in India. The resources of the Raj had so 
considerably developed in his time that the rent-roll which was eight 
lakhs when he was a minor under the Court of Wards had risen to 
twelve lakhs of Rupees, and this not by any illicit enhancement but 
after a survey and preparation of a regular and systematic record of 
rights initiated by the Court of Wards. 1 It is interesting to know that 
1 While at this stage of my writing I was fortunate enough to make a very im- 
