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 Index of Indigo Planters - Behar 1908 - C

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Date transcribed2011-00-00
Transcribed byAlison Kilpatrick
CommentIndex of Indigo Planters in Bihar taken from "History of Behar Indigo Factories; Reminiscences of Bihar; Tirhoot
and its inhabitants of the past.". by Minden Wilson 1908.

Surname  Curran    
Title  Mr.    
Chapter  Tirhoot and Its Inhabitants of the Past    
Sub-title  Biographical sketch: Kenneth MacLeod    
Page nos.  231-232    
Description  A private in the 1st European Bengal Fusiliers. Kenneth MacLeod bought his discharge, to look after his mare, Diana. Curran rode a race “where the N.W. [North West] was represented by Sir Charles Oakley’s Mercury and South Ganges by F. Vincent’s Helen. Diana represented the Blues for the Planter community.” Curran coaxed Diana to win by a neck. The win was Curran’s ruin: he got “innumerable presents in the shape of cash and riding whips, but what got him was this, that during the whole of Sonepur he was never allowed to dine without quaffing of the glorious vintage of Champagne”—as a consequence, he “took to drink and eventually, he and his kind master [MacLeod] had to part.” The author, Minden Wilson, last saw Curran when going over Cook and Co.’s stable, with old [Kenneth] MacLeod. Curran became a trooper in the Yeomanry Cavalry and did service in Gorrukpur.     
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Index of Indigo Planters in Bihar taken from "History of Behar Indigo Factories; Reminiscences of Bihar; Tirhoot
and its inhabitants of the past. History of Behar Light Horse
Volunteers". by Minden Wilson 1908.
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