2-981-841 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Rajah Harendra Krishna, 1876. Engraving from a photograph. 'Rajah Harendra Krishna, a member of the Bengal Legislative Council,. This Bengalee gentleman, who has the rank of Bahadur and Rajah, is the head of the Sobha-bazar family, attached friends of the British interest since the days of Lord Clive...[and is] a member of the Bengal Legislative Council. It will be found, in the history of British Indian progress, that both Clive and Warren Hastings repeatedly acknowledged the valuable services of Nava Krishna, who died in 1797. The present Kumar Harendra Krishna, his great-grandson, has been in the Bengal Government service from 1851, and has been commended and promoted. His father, the late Rajah Kali Krishna, was one of the most eminent of Sanscrit scholars. years'. From "Illustrated London News", 1876.