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કારતક-માગશર ૧૯૮૩ The Genealogy of the Jagat Seths of Murshidabad.
[A paper submitted by Babu Puranchand Nahar M. A. L.L. B. of 48 Indian Mirror Street Calcutta, before the Fifth Indian Historical Records Commission, Calcutta 1923. ]
The object of this paper is to he had been to collect all the supply a more or less complete and available materials from the India authentic genealogical table with a brief Office for the compilation of a comnote on that Indian Family the fame plete and accurate history of the of whose wealth had become almost family. At his request I prepared a mythical. The record of the services genealogical tree mainly from mateand the cordial relation of the ances. rials then with me. Mr. Little was tors of the family with the British only too eager to accept my table as Government at the beginning of their more complete and correct than other administration in Bengal, are facts existing ones and to revise his comtoo well-known and we find a good pilation accordingly as will be seen deal of information from the records from his letter dated the 16th January, already published, dealing with the 1916. (Ex. A); but unfortunately his doings and the History of the Jagat short but promising career suddenly Seths, both in their relation to the came to a close by his untimely death. Mahomedan Rulers of the Province Consequently the genealogical table as well as the British Power. Dur. prepared by me could not be incoring my search for unpublished Jain in- porated in his work. I, however, take scriptions and manuscripts, buried in this pleasant opportunity to bring to Bhandars or with other private indivi- light the result of my researches duals, I came across a genealogical from materials not easily accessible table with notices of the various mem- to non-Jain scholars. bers of this most interesting family. The Jagat Seths belong to the The latest account of the House of Oswal Sect of the Jains. It will re. Jagat Seth has been published in Vols. quire a whole volume to trace the XX & XXII of "Bengal, Past and history of the Sect which means Present" a journal of the Calcutta history of conversion of the Rajput Historical Society, compiled by late clans of Marwar, following Vedic reMr. J. H. Little, Headmaster of the ligion, to Jainism. It will do for the Nizamut Madrassa at Murshidabad. purposes of this paper to say that the It is now some six years ago in Sect derived its name from the place 1916 when I visited this gentleman of its first conversion, still known as after his return from England where Osian in Jodhpur State, an account
