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 Index of Indigo Planters - Behar 1908 - C
| Date transcribed | 2011-00-00 | | Transcribed by | Alison Kilpatrick | | Comment | Index 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 | Anderson | | | Forename | John | | | Title | No. 1 | | | Chapter | Tirhoot and Its Inhabitants of the Past | | | Sub-title | Biographical sketch: John Anderson, No. 1 | | | Page nos. | 279 | | | Description | Manager and proprietor of Kumtoul Factory. He then went to manage Hattowrie Factory, taking with him Sunful Raie, whom he made jemadar. Made money [at Hattowrie] and went home [to England or Scotland] once or twice. After returning from his last trip home, things went badly and he had to give up the indigo factory at Hattowrie. He arranged to buy Nawadah Factory—Sunful Raie was to help him with the money but, at the last moment, failed his old master: “It was a terrible blow for poor old Mr. Anderson, for he died soon after, people said, of a broken heart.” Anderson was buried at Nawadah Factory. One of his daughters married Captain Aitkin, an officer in the army, “who so gallantly defended the Baily Guard at Lucknow [during the Mutiny of 1857-58], while his wife was one of those locked up in the Residency.” The other daughter married Captain Williams, “who also did good service during the Mutiny, and afterwards commanded the Moshee Serks Pioneers.” Anderson’s son was employed with the Revenue Survey under Messrs. Chapman and Wyatt, 1848, and for a time, in the Opium Department. | | | Indexer Notes | (1) Please note that there were three, perhaps four, men named John Anderson, who were indigo planters in Bengal during the nineteenth century. The subject of this index entry appears to be someone other than John “Soojee” Anderson or John Anderson of Chitwarrah. (2) A jemadar, or Jámádár, was a chief or leader of people, often in the army, the police or in the customs. |
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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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