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Date transcribed2011-05-01
Transcribed byPeter Bailey
CommentNote that notables of Indian, Afghan, etc. origin do not always follow the alphabetical name pattern established by Buckland in his original work.

Surname  Karkaria    
First Name(s)  Rustomji Pestonji    
Year of Birth  1869    
Entry  Born at Bombay, May 16, 1869 : educated at St. Xavier's School and College : B.A., 1888 : Senior Fellow : Asst. Professor of English and History, 1891 : Examiner to the Bombay University in History, Geography, Logic, Moral Philosophy, Political Economy : helped to found, 1896, the Collegiate Institution : became its Principal and Professor of English Literature : his action in obtaining the recognition of private colleges led partly to the Universities Act of 1904 : Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, 1898 : M.R.A.S. Bombay, 1888 : M.R.A.S. Great Britain 1900 : Member of the American Oriental Society, 1897 : has contributed papers to many Journals of Societies, also to the Anglo-Indian and English newspapers on Indian subjects : discovered and published Carlyle's Lectures on European Literature, with notes ; author of works on Indian History and Politics, Sivaji, Akbar, Essays on English History, India under Victoria, on the Native Press, translated the Parsi Sacred Book, the Dinkard : served on Committees of the Parsi community to consider questions of Religious Education, of Social Amelioration, of admitting proselytes, and other subjects on which he has written largely.     
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