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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1881 edition. Excerpt: ...in his youth enjoyed, but he bore his misfortunes with an uncommon fortitude. He did not give himself up to despondency, but preferred to wait with patience for the dawn of better days. Himself a good and pious Hindu of the true type, he was impressed with the belief that the virtues of his father and grandfather would not go in vain, but that the family, if kept up in the path of righteousness and virtue was sure to rise again from the depth to which it had fallen. His chief aim therefore was to give a careful education to his five sons, and having himself been brought up in the Hindu College, he laboured hard to train them up under his personal supervision. He died in April 1874, at the age of 67, but before his death he had the satisfaction of finding as the fruit of his labours, that all his sons had completed their education in the Presidency College, and had, with the eiception of the youngest, been provided for in the world. His five sons are Balms Rajendra Natb, Mahendra Nath, Upendra Nath, Surendra Nath, and Jagendra Nath. Babu Rajendra Nath Mitter, after receiving his preliminary education in Bengali in a Patehala, entered the Hare School while about eight or nine years of age. He was thence transferred to the Presidency (then Hindu) College about the year 1848. Having in this College obtained successively two junior and five senior scholarships, he, at the annual examination of 1854-55, which was the final year of his academic career, stood at the head of all the colleges in Bengal. He also distinguished himself in the Law Department of the College, in which he obtained a prize and a certificate of honor, as well as the final diploma, entitling him to plead in the Saddar (now High) Court or to act as a Munsiff. He was enrolled...