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Originally appearing in Volume V15, Page 649 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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KANDI  , a

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town of
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British
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India, in
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Murshidabad
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district,
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Bengal . Pop . (1901), 12,037 . It is the
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residence of the rajas of Paikpara, a wealthy and devout
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Hindu
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family . The founder of this family was Ganga Govind Singh, the
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banyan or
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agent of
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Warren
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Hastings, who was
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born at Kandi, and retired hither in his old
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age with an immense
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fortune . His name has acquired celebrity for the most magnificent sraddha, or funeral
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obsequies, ever performed in Bengal, celebrated in
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honour of his
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mother, at a cost, it is said, of £200,000 .

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