Rai Sahib / Rao Saheb / Roy Sahib / Rao Sahib abbreviated R.S., was a
title of honour
A title of honor or honorary title is a title bestowed upon individuals or organizations as an award in recognition of their merits.
Sometimes the title bears the same or nearly the same name as a title of authority, but the person bestowed doe ...
issued during the era of
British rule
The British Raj (; from Hindi ''rāj'': kingdom, realm, state, or empire) was the rule of the British Crown on the Indian subcontinent;
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or Direct rule in India,
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in India to individuals who performed faithful service or acts of public welfare to the nation.
From 1911 the title was accompanied by a special
Title Badge. Translated, ''Rai'' means "King" ''sahib'' means "leader".
![Rao Sahib](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/2c/Rao_Sahib.jpg)
This was the start level title usually awarded to civilians, which could later be upgraded to
Rao Bahadur __NOTOC__
Rao may refer to:
Geography
* Rao, West Sumatra, one of the districts of West Sumatra, Indonesia
* Råö, a locality in Kungsbacka Municipality, Halland County, Sweden
Transport
* Dr. Leite Lopes–Ribeirão Preto State Airport , IAT ...
and then to
Dewan Bahadur
Dewan Bahadur or Diwan Bahadur was a title of honour awarded during British rule in India. It was awarded to individuals who had performed faithful service or acts of public welfare to the nation. From 1911 the title was accompanied by a special T ...
titles.
The title styled ''Rai Sahib'' were awarded to
Hindu
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people of
North India
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, Rao Saheb in
Maharashtra
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and styled ''Rao Sahib'' to Hindu people of South India, however, they were both of same category and spelling was altered to meet with regional differences of pronunciation.
The Rai Sahib/Rao Sahib/Roy Sahib and other similar titles issued during British Raj were disestablished in 1947 upon independence of India.
Some people awarded the title
* Rao Bahadur Satyendra Nath Mukherjee, Awarded Rai Saheb on 4 June 1934. He was the first Indian Origin Deputy Commissioner of Police, Calcutta.
*Rao Sahib
Ayyathan Gopalan
Rao Sahib Ayyathan Gopalan (3 March 1861 – 2 May 1948), popularly known as Darsarji and Darsar Sahib ("Darsar" means "doctor", derived from Latin word "docere" for doctor), was an Indian doctor, surgeon, professor, writer, philanthropist, s ...
(Kerala, India) a.k.a. "Darsarji" – Doctor, chief surgeon, hospital superintendent and in charges, medical school professor and also served as the magistrate of Malabar region of Kerala (during British rule in India), social reformer of Kerala. -awarded Raisahib on 17 November 1917 by British Government.
*Pandit Wazir Chand Trikha, Jhang, Pakistan (India) – Chief Accounts officer northern railways.
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Nagendra Kumar Bhattacharyya
Rai Sahib Nagendra Kumar Bhattacharyya (5 November 1888 – 8 April 1967) was an eminent Indian criminal lawyer practising in the High Court of Calcutta and a Member of the West Bengal Legislative Council.
Early life
Rai Sahib Nagendra Kumar B ...
– Commissioner of
Berhampore
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1932–1948, Murshidabad District, West Bengal
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Ramnath Goenka
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, Bombay – newspaper editor and businessman
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Mulji Jagmal Sawaria
Mulji Jagmal Sawaria, Rai Saheb (1889–1956) was a noted railway contractor, miner and Kutchi people, Kutchi businessman, who established himself at Bilaspur, Chhattisgarh, Bilaspur, India.
Early life
Moolji was born in 1889 to Jagmal Gangji Saw ...
,
Bilaspur, Chhattisgarh
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– miner
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A. Y. S. Parisutha Nadar
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T ...
,
Thanjavur
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– Politician, Industrialist
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Abraham Pandithar – Tamil musicologist, composer and a traditional medicine practitioner (2 August 1859 – 31 August 1919)
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Dinanath Atmaram Dalvi
Raosaheb Dinanath Atmaram Dalvi (1844 – 10 February 1897) was an Indian judge and amateur mathematician. His father Atmaram Bapu Dalvi was a social reformer and was Vice President of the Bombay Arya Samaj in 1880. He obtained his BA degree i ...
(1844–1897) SubJudge, later Subordinate Judge Bombay Presidency, Senior Dakshina Fellow Elphinstone College Bombay, Fellow Bombay University and Author of the book "An Examination of Sir Isaac Newton's Rule for finding the Number of Imaginary Square Roots in an Equation".
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Dukhan Ram
Dukhan Ram (1899–1990) was an Indian ophthalmologist, academic, legislator and the vice chancellor of Babasaheb Bhimrao Ambedkar Bihar University. He was the principal of Patna Medical College, one of the oldest medical colleges in India, and ...
– Indian ophthalmologist, legislator and
Padma Bhushan
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recipient
*Mahabir Prasad Misra – Educator, Madhubani District, Dharbanga.
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Gidugu Venkata Ramamurthy
Gidugu Venkata Ramamurthy (1863-1940) was a Telugu writer and one of the earliest modern Telugu linguists and social visionaries during the British rule. He championed the cause of using a language comprehensible to the common man (‘Vyavahar ...
– Telugu linguist
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Ganpatrao Narayanrao Madiman
Rao Sahib Ganpatrao Narayanrao Madiman (20 May 1879 – 10 May 1947) was a noted businessman, banker, cotton yarn and cloth Merchant from Hubli in the erstwhile Bombay Presidency of British India.
Early life
Madiman was born in a Saraswat Brah ...
– Noted businessman and banker from Hubli, Karnataka.
*Kashinath Krishna Kalkar – Dy Collector of
Amalner
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Koovarji Karsan Rathor
Rai Saheb Koovarji Karsan Rathor (1898–1976) was a noted Kutchi railway & civil contractor, businessman & philanthropist from Cuttack, India.
Life sketch
He was born to Karsan Bhima Rathor in Madhapar, who belonged to Mestri community ...
– industrialist from
Cuttack
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* Kuppusamy Kodandapani Pillai – Deputy Collector, Protector of Emigrants, Special Officer for South African Repatriates and Controller of Emigration from ]Madras
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* Harilal Shamji – philanthropist and industrialist from Raigarh
Raigarh is a city in Eastern Chhattisgarh.
History
The tradition preserved by the ruling family of the erstwhile state of Raigarh maintains that the Raj Gond family migrated to this region from Bairagarh/Wariagarh of Chanda district of Mahara ...
See also
*Rao Bahadur __NOTOC__
Rao may refer to:
Geography
* Rao, West Sumatra, one of the districts of West Sumatra, Indonesia
* Råö, a locality in Kungsbacka Municipality, Halland County, Sweden
Transport
* Dr. Leite Lopes–Ribeirão Preto State Airport , IAT ...
*Dewan Bahadur
Dewan Bahadur or Diwan Bahadur was a title of honour awarded during British rule in India. It was awarded to individuals who had performed faithful service or acts of public welfare to the nation. From 1911 the title was accompanied by a special T ...
*Raj Ratna
Raj Ratna (also Raj Ratan or Rajya Ratna; literally ''Gem of the Raj'') was a title of high honour, a civilian award, which was prevalent in the princely states of India during the British Raj.
History
''Raj Ratna'' awards were given by rulers ...
*Title Badge (India)
Title Badges were presented to Indian citizens who received certain formal titles of honour during British rule in India. They ceased to be awarded in 1947 on Indian independence.
Establishment
The system for bestowing titles on prominent In ...
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