Rai Bahadur Siddheshwar Mitter was a civil servant in British India.

Background

He was born in Hooghly-

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in the erstwhile undivided province of

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. He was closely related to

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Career

He was a

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employed in the

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. In the initial years of his career, he worked as Sir Francis Younghusband's Confidential Assistant in

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. He did useful work in

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and

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as well. Later, he was appointed by Colonel Daly, the

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of the Governor-General in Central India, as Dewan of

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State, a

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State in Central India. For the services he rendered to the British and the Indian States, he received the decoration of

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.''The Englishman'', Monday,10 August 1908

References

1865 births 1912 deaths Administrators in the princely states of India Bengali people Indian Civil Service (British India) officers Indian dewans Indian diplomats People from Hooghly district University of Calcutta alumni {{India-diplomat-stub