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houses for students of their caste and creed. Nay, the men of position and means, sacrifice their private and personal comforts and set an example to others to work for the common weal.
The late Sir Sayyed Ahmed of Aligarh brought, by his undaunted courage, the Aligarh College into existence which has materially improv d the condition of the Mahomedans of Upper India. His Highness the Aga Khan is trying for the same canse and Nawab Mohsiu ul-Mulk, who is Honorary Secretary of the Aligarh College, das now started on a tour in the Deccan where he will lecture on the good and soothing effects of Education to his co-religionists and by bis commanding position will try his utmost to popularise the cause of education among the Maliomedans of Lower India. In the first week of this month, Muktilus-ul-Dolalı Nawab Fayyaz Ali Khan of Pahası, who is also a Jaghirdar of Jaipur, invited His Ilonor the Lieutenant. Governor of the United Provinces of Agra and Oudh to lay the foundation-stone of a boarding-house at Aligarh the whole costs of which will be defrayed by the benevolent Nawab.
Among the educated Digambers of Upper India we see Professors Jeeya Lal, Jagmandir Lal, Vakils Ajit Prasad, Banke Rai and other graduates working day and night for the elevation of their caste and creed; whercas the renowned Seth of Muttra patrovises the Digamber Mahasabha and School. Mr. Arjam Lal Sethi B. A. of Jaipur has recently been reported to have disconnected himself from worldly affairs to devote his life to the cause of the improvement of the Digamber Jains. Pandit Chiranji Lal of Hissar has resigned his post of a School-Master and offered himself as an Updeshak for the Jain Orphanage of Hissar on a nominal maintenance pay of Rs 10 a month. Among the Digambers of Lower India the foremost name is that of Sethi Manakchand Panachand Joheri of Bombay who is a self-made man and who seems to be a real worker in the field of progress. In addition to his erecting comfortable and costly boardiny.bouses at Bombay and Ahmedabad, he has now had the new Jain Student's Institute erected at a cost of Rs. 18000, at Kolhapur. The Maharajah of Kolhapur attended by Colonel and Mrs. Ferris, held a grand Durbar and graciously performed the opening ceremony of the new Institute.
The Kayesthas have a good Pathsalla of their own and their paper "The Kayesth Samachar" is so ably and nicley conducted that it has been more than once favorably spoken of by even the Pioneer.
The leaders of the Dhoosar caste have not been lacking in
