Jwala Sahai
Jwala Sahai (b:1838) is the author of History of Bharatpur (printed in 1912). A brief sketch of Jwala Sahai is reproduced below.
Brief bio-data
This sketch is reproduced from:
- Dictionary of Indian Biography Page 370) by C.E. Buckland, C.I.E. (Indian Civil Service, retired) :Haskell House Publishers Ltd., (Publishers of Scarce Scholarly Books) - New York, N.Y. 10012 (1968) (first published in 1906)
SAHAI, JWALA (1838 - ) Born 1838, of the Kayastha Mathur caste: son of Lala Kripa Krishna, employee in the Ulwar State: educated at Ulwar and at the Government College, Delhi : Tutor and Private Secretary to the Raja of Khetri, and Civil and Criminal Judge there, 1859-70 : in the Bharatpur State, 1870-9, as Superintendent, P.W.D. : Civil and Criminal Judge, and Private Secretary to the Maharaja : in the Oodeypur State, 1879-80, as Boundary Commissioner: in the Jaipur State, 1880-8 : As Mir Munshi of the State Council, Census Superintendent of the State, 1881, Nazim (Collr-Magte) in the Malpura Nizamat : in the Jhalawar State, 1889-95 as Census Superintendent 1891, and as Accountant and Comptroller : and again in the Bharatpur, 1895-1905, as Nazim and District Magistrate and President of the Municipal Board : translated Aitchison's Treaties into Urdu : wrote the Annals of Rajputana in Urdu : and in English the History of Bharatpur : Deeg, its History and Places, the Loyal Rajputana, a record of the services of the Rajputana chiefs to the British Government during the mutiny; and has in the press a History of Rajputana from the time of the advant of the British into Rajputana : was for some time President of the Jaipur Theosophical society: constantly employed on inter-State disputes: retired from Service on Aug. 3, 1905.
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