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 his research, scholarship and erudition : wrote largely for the Hindu Patriot, often inspiring its policy. In 1885 he was elected President of the Asiatic Society of Bengal, and in 1886 took a prominent part in the Second National Indian Congress : was Member of the Calcutta Corporation : D.L. of the Calcutta University, 1875 : Vice-President and President of the British Indian Association : Raj Bahadur, 1877 : C.I.E., 1878 : and Raja, 1888. The most learned Hindu of his time : he received a special pension in recognition of his services to Literature and Archasology : his name is well known to antiquarians and savants in every part of the world : died July 26, 1891.

MITRA, TRAILOKYA NATH (1844–1895)

Born May 2, 1844 : son of Joy Gopal Mitra : educated at Uttarpara : M.A., 1864 : B.L., 1865 : Doctor in Law, 1877, of Calcutta University : Lecturer in Mathematics at the Presidency College : Law Lecturer and Acting Professor of Philosophy at Hughli College : joined the bar : practised at Hughli and in the Calcutta High Court, 1875 : Fellow of the Calcutta University, 1879 : and Tagore Law Lecturer, 1879, on "Hindu Widows" : President of the Faculty of Law : M.R.A.S. : died of fever, April 18, 1895.

MITTER, SIR ROMESH CHUNDER (1840–1899)

Born 1840 : son of the Head Clerk of the Sadr Adalat at Calcutta : educated in the Hare School and the Presidency College there : passed his B.L., and became a Pleader when he was 21 : rose to the front rank of his profession, and was a Judge of the High Court, 1874–1890 : on two occasions acted as Chief Justice : was a Fellow, and President of the Faculty of Law, of the University. For the remainder of his life he rendered many services to his countrymen : was a Member of the Governor-General's Legislative Council and of the Public Service Commission : joined the National Congress : and was Vice-President of the Indian Science Association. He was first knighted, and afterwards K.C.I.E. : died July 13, 1899.

MITTER, SARADA CHARAN (1848–)

Born Dec. 17, 1848 : took his B.A. degree in 1870, and, later, M.A. at the Calcutta University : was Premchand Roychand Scholar in 1871 : B.L., 1873 : practised in the Calcutta High Court from 1874 : officiating High Court Judge, 1903 : confirmed, 1904 : has written a law book on the Land Laws of Bengal.

MOHAN LAL ( ? –1870)

Munshi : son of Pandit Budh Singh of Delhi : educated at the English College at Delhi : when still quite a youth, he accompanied Lieutenant Alexander Burnes and Dr. J. G. Gerard on their journey to Persia in 1832 in the capacity of Persian munshi. The expedition was undertaken by order of the Government of India, with the object of gaining a knowledge of the general condition of the countries west of the Indus. Mohan Lai assisted Burnes in his Persian correspondence. The latter, in his book, Travels into Bokhara, speaks highly of Mohan Lai's trust-worthiness and interest in the expedition, as well as of the detailed journal which Mohan Lai kept at the request of Burnes. This diary was published in 1834, under the title of Journal of a Tour through the Panjab, Afghanistan, Turkistan, Khorasan, and Part of Persia. During the first Afghan war he was employed as Attache to the British Agency : but the greater part of his life was spent at Delhi, where he died about 1870.

MOHL, JULIUS (1800–1876)

Born Oct. 25, 1800, at Stuttgart : son of a high civil official in Wurtemburg : went to Tubingen to study theology : attracted by Eastern studies, he went to Paris, 1823, to the School of Oriental Learning in the College de France : attended lectures on Arabic, Persian and Chinese : made Professor of Oriental Languages at Tubingen, 1826 (which he resigned in 1831), but allowed to continue his studies at Paris : in England, 1830–1 : at Paris, selected by the French Government to translate Firdusi's Shah Nameh : 6 volumes appeared, 1838–68 : the seventh and last unfinished at his death : Member of the French Institute, 1844 : Professor of Persian at the College de France : Inspector of the Oriental Department at