Bruhat Katha kosha

Author(s): Harishen Acharya,
Publisher: Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan

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SINGHI JAIN SERIES
[A Short History Of The Series ]
IT is with great pleasure that I place before the public the present Volume 1 which forms No. 17 of the Singhi Jain Series. The following few lines describe how the Series came to be inaugurated.
Babu S'ri Dalchandji Singhi, in whose sacred memory the present Series is inaugurated, by his son, Babu Siri Bahadursinghji Singhi was born in Azimganj ( Murshidabad) in the Vikrama Samvat 1921 ( 1865 A. D.), and died in Calcutta on the 30th December, 1927. The Singhi family of Azimganj occupies almost the foremost rank among the few hundred Jaina families which migrated to Bengal from Rajputana in the latter part of the 17th century and took their domicile in the district of Murshidabad. family rose to its present position and prominence chiefly through the energy and enterprise of that self-made man, Babu Dalchandji Singhi.
Owing to financial difficulties, Dalchandji Singhi had abruptly to cut short his educational career and join the family business at the early age of 14. The family had been carrying on business in the name of Messrs Hurisingh Nehalchand for a long time though, in those days, it was not at all a prominent firm. But having taken the reins of the firm in his own hands, Babu Dalchandji developed it on a very large scale; and it was mainly through his business acumen, industry, perseverance and honesty that this comparatively unknown firm of "Hurisingh Nehalchand" came to be reckoned as the foremost jute concern with branches in almost all the impor. tant jute centres of Bengal. The fruits of Dalchandji Singhi's toils were immense, and the reputation of the firm in commercial circles was indeed unique.