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  (q.v.) Feb. 5. 1812 : went with him and other Missionaries to work, arriving at Calcutta, June, 1812 : resided at Serampur with Dr. (q.v.) : summoned by the Government to Calcutta, and peremptorily ordered to leave India : they went to the Isle of France, thence to Rangoon, July, 1813 : Mrs. Judson went to England and the United States, 1822; at Washington, her advice was taken by the Baptists respecting the Burmese Mission : she published her History of the Burmese Mission : returned to Rangoon, 1823, and joined her husband at Ava : where he and other Missionaries were taken prisoners : in the first Burmese war she underwent terrible sufferings, "but by her eloquent and forcible appeals" procured their release : still she persevered with the Mission to the Burmese : she died of violent fever, Oct. 24, 1826.

KABRAJI, KAIKHUSRU NAOROJI (1842–1904)

Born Aug. 21, 1842, at Bombay : descended from a Surat family : son of Naoroji Kabraji : educated in the Jamsetji Jijibhai school : took to Journalism, 1858 : became editor of the Parsi Mitra : joined the Rast Goftar, as sub-editor, and editor, 1863–1902 : making the paper an instrument for social reform in the whole native community : was Fellow of the Bombay University, 1882 : Secretary of the Guzarati Society for the Diffusion of Knowledge, 1880, lecturing for it : Secretary of the Sir Dinshaw Petit Gymnastic Institution, 1867–75 : supported female education, founding girls' schools : an active member of the Bombay Municipal Corporation, 1882–1904 : a warm champion of British rule in India, and a moderate critic : to England in 1900, and was made a member of the British Institute of Journalists : on the fiftieth anniversary of his paper, Nov, 1901, was specially congratulated on his editorship : retired from it 1902 : died April, 1904 : raised the tone of the vernacular Press in W. India : also wrote a number of novels dealing mostly with Parsi social life.

KAMRAN SHAH, ABDALI or DURANI ( ? –1842)

Son of Mahmud Shah, grandson of Timur Shah, and great-grandson of Ahmad Shah Abdali, ruler of Afghanistan: he seized Fateh Khan, the Barakzai wazir of Afghanistan, blinded him and then killed him : he succeeded his father, when murdered in 1829, as ruler of Herat. He was cruel and dissipated, and would have given up Herat to the Persians : but his wazir and the presence of Eldred Pottinger during the siege of Herat, from Nov. 1837, to Sep. 1838, prevented him. A treaty, dated Aug. 13, 1839, was negotiated on behalf of the Governor-General by Major E. D'Arcy Todd, envoy to Herat, with Kamran Shah, who opened treacherous correspondence with Persia : Todd's subsequent action was disapproved by Lord Auckland. Kamran was strangled in 1842 by his minister Yar Mahomed Khan Alakozai.

KAPUR, RAJA BAN BIH ARI (1853–)

Born Nov.11,1853 : adopted asason by the third brother of Maharaja (q.v.) of Burdwan on Aug. 31, 1856 : appointed Vice-President of the Burdwan Raj Council, 1879 : Member of the Bengal Legislative Council, Jan. 1885 : in the same year joint Manager of the Burdwan Raj : and sole Manager in 1891 : given the title of Raja as a personal distinction, Jan. 1893 : C.S.I., Jan. 1903 : again Member of the Bengal Legislative Council, Jan. 1905 : the late Maharaja Aftab Chand Bahadur married his sister, and she adopted Raja Ban Bihari's son, Bijoy, the present Maharaja Bahadur.

KAPURTHALA, KUNWAR SIR HARNAM SINGH, OF (1851–)

Born Nov. 15, 1851 : son of Raja Sir Randhir Singh Bahadur of Kapurthala, G. C.S.I : educated at Kapurthala : managed the Kapurthala estates for 18 Years : Hon. Life Secretary of the B.I. Association of Talukdars of Oudh : Fellow of the Panjab University : Member of the Panjab Legislative Council, 1900–2 : K.C.I.E., 1899 : and Member of the Governor-General's Legislative Council : resigned all claims to the succession to the State by becoming a Christian : guest of the nation at the Coronation, 1902.

KAPURTHALA, RAJA SIR JAGATJIT SINGH, BAHADUR, OF (1872–)

Succeeded his father. Raja Kharak Singh, Sep. 5, 1877 : K.C.S.I. in 1897 : has visited England.