RAJENDRA LALA See also:

• RAJENDRA LALA MITRA (1824-1891)

MITRA (1824-1891)  , See also:

• INDIAN

Indian Orientalist, was See also:

• BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born in a suburb of See also:

• CALCUTTA

Calcutta on the 15th of See also:

• FEBRUARY

February 1824, of a respectable See also:

• FAMILY

family of the See also:

• KAYASTH

Kayasth or writer See also:

• CASTE (through the Fr. from Span. and Port. casta, lineage, Lat. cast us, pure)

caste of See also:

• BENGAL
• BENGAL, BAY OF

Bengal . To a large extent he was self-educated, studying See also:

• SANSKRIT

Sanskrit and See also:

• PERSIAN
• PERSIAN, SYRIAN, EGYPTIAN AND TURKISH

Persian in the library of his See also:

• FATHER

father . In 1846 he was appointed librarian of the See also:

• ASIATIC

Asiatic Society, and to that society the See also:

• REMAINDER, REVERSION

remainder of his See also:

• LIFE

life was devoted—as philological secretary, as See also:

• VICE

vice-See also:

• PRESIDENT (Fr. president, from Lat. praesidens, post-Augustan Lat. for praeses, director, ruler, from praesidere, to sit in front of, preside)

president, and as the first native president in 1885 . Apart from very numerous contributions to the society's See also:

• JOURNAL
• JOURNAL (through Fr. from late Lat. diurnalis, daily)

journal, and to the See also:

• SERIES (a Latin word from serere, to join)

series of Sanskrit texts entitled " Bibliotheca indica," he published three See also:

• SEPARATE

separate See also:

• WORKS

works: (1) The Antiquities of See also:

• ORISSA

Orissa (2 vols., 1875 and 188o), illustrated with photographic plates, in which he traced back the See also:

• IMAGE (Lat. imago, perhaps from the same root as imitari, copy, imitate)

image of Jagannath (See also:

• JUGGERNAUT

Juggernaut) and also the See also:

• CAR (Late Lat. carra)

car-festival to a Buddhistic origin; (2) a similarly illustrated See also:

• WORK

work on Bodh Gaya (1878), the hermitage of Sakya Muni, and (3) Indo-See also:

• ARYANS

Aryans (2 vols., 1881), a collection of essays dealing with the See also:

• MANNERS, CHARLES (1857– )

manners and customs of the See also:

• PEOPLE

people of See also:

• INDIA
• INDIA, FRENCH

India from Vedic times . He received the honorary degree of LL.D. from the university of Calcutta in 1875, the companionship of the Indian See also:

• EMPIRE

Empire when that See also:

• ORDER
• ORDER (through Fr. ordre, for earlier ordene, from Lat. ordo, ordinis, rank, service, arrangement; the ultimate source is generally taken to be the root seen in Lat. oriri, rise, arise, begin; cf. " origin ")
• ORDER, HOLY

order was founded in 1878, and the See also:

• TITLE (0. Fr. title, mod. titre, from Lat. titulus)

title of See also:

• RAJA

raja in 1888 . He died at Calcutta on the 26th of See also:

• JULY

July 1891 .