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Rh For many years before his death he had given over the management of his estates to his eldest son, known later as the Nawab Sir Khawja Ahsanulla whom he had carefully trained as his successor and who so worthily followed in his father's footsteps. In 1896 Nawab Abdul Ghani died, full of years and honour, loved and respected by all who knew him. Throughout his long life he had been consistently loyal both to the British Government and to the interests of his own community. A keen businessman, he never aggrandised himself at the expense of others. His sympathies were wide and generous and no deserving case was ever brought to his notice in vain. He was one of the best types of Zemindars that Bengal had produced, content to live in the midst of his own people and with an ear always open to their petitions and complaints. His will always remain one of the greatest and grandest figures in Eastern Bengal in the nineteenth century.