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 i82 WHO'S WHO IN INDIA the Government of Bengal made him a Presidency JVIagistrate in October, 19 13. Recreations : Chiefly study of the Dharma Shastras, Astrology, General Study, Practice of Homoepathy, etc. He is the President of the Kalighat Association (Calcutta) and the founder of the Krishnagar Club (Nadia). Address : 2S, Nakuleshwar Bhattacharjea's Lane, Calcutta. ^' Haji Bukhsh Ellahie, of the well known Calcutta firm bearing his name, comes of an old family of merchants of Delhi. About 1878, he went to Calcutta to learn business and began as an Assistant in a Mahomedan Mercantile firm in that city. The promise of a sound business career which he seemed to give encourged his elder brother, Haji Karam Ellahie, himself a business veteran of considerable repute at Delhi, to join hands with him and start a business of their own in Calcutta under the directorship of this youngman in 1885. The chief article of trade in which this firm has specialised is the imported tobacco. As a citizen of Calcutta, Haji Bukhsh Ellahie has distingushed himself by his careful attention to the needs of his own community, as well as those of the public in general. The *' Musafir Khana'' or Rest House situate on the Chitpore Road, and the Mahomedan Burial Association are monuments of his public spirit. On the occasion of the King-Emperor's Coronation Darbar he presented 50,000 cigarettes through His Excellency the Commander-in-Chief for the British soldiers together with a dozen Silver Challenge Cups to en- courage sport competition among the various divisions of the Army in India. Haji Bukhsh Ellahie is a member of the Chambers of Commerce both of Bengal and of the Punjab, of the Calcutta Mahomedan Orphanage Committee, Calcutta, District Charitable Society, Central National Mahomedan Association and the Calcutta Mahomedan Burial Board. He has three sons: the second, Mr. Abdur Rahim being the manag- ing partner of the head firm at Calcutta. Address: C/o Haji Bukhsh Ellahie and Company, General Merchants, Calcutta.