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 . a hundred elephants. Publications: An account of Balrampur and Khedda, in Urdu, 1904-5; Recreations: Cricket, tennis, billiards, chess, motoring and tiger shooting. Address: The Palace, Balrampur, (Gonda); also Khurshed Baugh, Lucknow; and Ivy Park, Naini Tal.  Balwant Rao, Bhaisya Sindhia, C.V.O. (1911); Member of the Board of Revenue, Gwalior State. Address: Gwaliar.  Balwant Singh, Sardar Saheb, Assistant Engineer, Punjab, P.W.D.; born, 1867: educated at the Gurudaspur High School and Lahore Government College; entered P.W.D. as an Overseer: Assistant Engineer, 1908; Waziristan Expedition from 1894-1898 and again in 1900-1901. Received a Sannad for his services; selected to serve on the Coronation Durbar Works of 1902-1903, and in 1905 for the preparations for the visit of T.R.H. Prince and Princess of Wales: in charge of the works of the Khalsa College from 1903-1910; deputed to the Delhi Durbar Works.; got the Kaiser-I-Hind Medal; Address: Delhi. Club: Lahore Masonic.  Balvant Singh, Sardar, born, 1852: son of Atar Singh, who was in command of a body of fifty horsemen, in 1857: Provincial Durbari. Address: Ludhiana.  Banaji, Miss Piroja: born, 1880: Educated, Girton High School, and the Elphinstone College, Bombay; B.A., 1900; M.A., 1901; Principal Macmillan of the Elphinstone College has said of her “she could write and speak English with unusual correctness”. Address: Bombay.  Ban Behari Kapur, Raja, C.S.I. Adopted by the third brother of the late Maharaj-Adhiraja Mahtab Chand Bahadur of Burdwan, 1856; appointed Diwan-i-Raj of Burdwan, 1877 and Vice President of the Burdwan Council, 1879; Joint Manager of Burdwan estate, 1886; sole Manager, 1891, Personal title of Raja, 1908; C.S.I., 1903. Address: Burdwan.  Bandaranaike, Sir Solomon Dias, Kt., 1907; C.M.G., 1902: Maha Mudaliyar and J.P. for the Island of Ceylon, and Native A.D.C. to H.E. the Governor; b. 1862; s. of the late D.C.H. Dias Bandaranaike, J.P. for the Island. Mudaliyar of the Governor’s Gate, etc. etc., and g.s. of late Don Solomon Dias Bandaranaike, referred to in Sir Emerson Tenant’s History of Ceylon: m. Daily Ezline, e.d. of Hon. Mr. S. C. Obeyesekree, Member of the Legislative Council of Ceylon, one s. two d. Educ.; St. Thomas’ Coll. Colombo. Is referred to in Cruise of H.M.S. Bacchante, 1886, in connection with the visit to Ceylon of T.R.H. Princes Albert Victor and George of Wales in 1882; created Mohandirum of the Governor’s Gate, and invested with the sword and belt of the office by H.R.H. the late Duke of Clarence, 1882; visited England 1895, 1897, and 1902; received Diamond Jubilee Gold Medal, 1897, having been sent as a delegate from Ceylon; presented with a gold medal by the inhabitants of Siyane Korle East, 1896, in recognition of services rendered to that district while administering its affairs as Mudaliyar: presented with a Gold Sword of Honour, 1901, by public subscription; acted as extra A.D.C. to Duke of York during the visit of Duke and Duchess to Ceylon. 1901; one 22