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 Bhagwati Sahoy; M.A., B.L., Bengal Provincial Educational Service; Fellow of Calcutta University; b. at Bhagalpur, 1863 : son of Babu Chandi Prasad, Revenue agent, Bhagalpur : Ed. at Baghalpur Zilla School, Patna College and Metropolitan Institution, Calcutta; Entered Government service, as Teacher 1886: Promoted to the Provincial Educational Service, 1902; Inspector of Schools, Patna and Tirhut Divisions; Promoted to the Indian Educational Service and acted as Professor of Philosophy, Patna College; Editor of Bengal Education Department Senior and Junior Teachers’ Manuals. Address: Bankipur, Behar.  Bhagykal, Raja of; Sri Nath Roy; Born. 1841; educated at the Dacca College, and the Presidency College. Calcutta. Belongs to the Kundu family noted for its works of munificence; among many philanthrophic institutions founded by the present chief, may be noted, the Eye Infirmary at Dacca, and the Water Works at Chittagong; worked for the establishment of the East Bengal Saraswat Samaj, and for the promotion of Sanskrit Literature; Is a Banker and Zemindar, Trustee of the Economic Museum, Life-Member of the Calcutta Zoological Gardens Committee, etc. Raja, 1891. Address: Dacca, Bengal, India.  Bhandari, Sadanand Trimbak; Rao Bahadur, J. P., Assistant Collector of Customs, Bombay; born, 1854; Educated, Elphinstone High School and College, Bombay, and the Deccan College, Poona; Joined Customs Department, 1895; Promoted to Imperial Service, 1908; Member, Bombay Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society, the Anthropological Society, etc. Address: Bombay.  Bhandakar, D. R., Supdt., Archaelogical Survey, Western Circle since 1908; son of Sir Ramakristna Gopal Bhandarkar; Entered service as Assistant Supdt., Western Circle; Joint Editor, “Indian Antiquary”; frequent Contributor to the “Indian Antiquary” and the “Epigraphia Indica”. Publications: Several learned papers on the progress of archaeological rosearches in Bombay Presy. published in the Dir.-General’s Annual, Address: Poona.  Bhandarkar, Ramakrishna Gopal C.I.E. (1889) Orientalist and Social reformer; born, 1837; educated at Ratnagiri and Elphinstone College, Bombay: M.A., 1866; Dakhshina Fellow of Elphinstone College, 1859, and later in the Dekkan College, Poona, till 1864; In the Bombay Education Department, 1864-93; Head-master of Hyderabad (Sind) and Ratnagiri High Schools, 1864-9; Professor of Sanskrit and Oriental Languages in Elphinstone College, where he was at first Assistant Professor for many years, from 1869 to 1881; Professor of Sanskrit at Dekkan College, Poona, 1882-93; Fellow, Bombay University from 1866; Syndic, 1873-81; Vice-Chancellor, 1893-5; Hon., LL.D. Bombay, 1904; Member, Supreme Legislative Council, 1903-4; Member, Bombay Legislative Council, 1904-5; Fellow, Calcutta University, 1887; Member of various learned Societies; R.A.S. London, 1874; R.A.S. Bombay, 1865; German Oriental Society, 1887; American Oriental Society, 1887; Asiatic Society of Italy, 1887; Imperial Academy of Science, St. Petersburg, 1888; Foreign 42