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Date transcribed2011-08-00
Transcribed byPeter Bailey
CommentNote that notables of Indian, Afghan, etc. origin do not always follow the alphabetical name patterns established by Buckland in his original work.

Surname  Rai    
First Name(s)  Raja Shitab    
Birth Year  ?    
Death Year  1773    
Entry  Born at Delhi : a Kayastha : early served the Emperor Muhammad Shah : defender of Patna, when the town was attacked by the Shahzada in 1760 : also gallantly assisted Captain Knox in the subsequent fighting : was appointed Naib Diwan of Bihar, about 1763 : under charges of embezzlement and oppression, he was suspended by Warren Hastings in April, 1772, and detained in Calcutta under inquiry and trial before Hastings in 1773 : in July, 1773, he was acquitted and restored to his office at Patna as Roy-royan and Naib Nazim : he died there in Sep. 1773 : his son Kalian Singh succeeded and was made a Maharaja.     
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