Rao Bahadur

Rao Bahadur (in

Those awarded the Rao Bahadur title were usually drawn from the lower rank of Rai Sahib, both of which were below the rank of Dewan Bahadur.^[2] These titles were subordinate to the two orders of knighthood: the Order of the Indian Empire and the higher Order of the Star of India. A holder of a Rai Sahib, Rai Bahadur or Dewan Bahadur title came lower in the order of precedence.^[1]

Selected recipients awarded the Rao/Rai Bahadur title

Academics and education

• Pt. Sadashiva Jairam Dehadrai, Professor of Sanskrit, Jabalpur College.^[3]
• Priya Nath Dutt, assistant registrar, Punjab University^[4]
• S.N (Satya Nand) Mukarji, the sixth, and longest-serving (as of 2023^[update]) principal of St. Stephen's College, Delhi from 1926 to 1945. (St. Stephen's is a foundation constituent college of Delhi University.) Wrangler in the Mathematical Tripos from Queens' College, Cambridge. Member, Lindsay Commission on Higher Education^[5]

Activists and politicians

• Ghasiram Gathwal Malik, he was the head of Gathwala Khap (Khap of Gathwala clan) and a freedom-fighter.
• S. A. Saminatha Iyer, Indian independence activist.
• Manik Lal Joshi, chief minister of Bundi, Rajputana^[6]
• Motilal Nehru, Indian independence activist, he later surrendered it during the non-co-operation movement of 1921.
• H.H Dr. Rai Rajeshwar Bali Bahadur OBE, MLA Taluqdar Raja of Rampur Dariyabad, Honorary Magistrate, Barabanki, Minister of Education, Medical Relief & Public Health and Local Self-Government of the UP Assembly
• Mahadev Govind Ranade, Indian scholar, social reformer, judge and author. He was one of the founding members of the Indian National Congress.
• Jaswantraj Mehta^{[citation needed]} Indian politician, elected to the Lok Sabha; elected to Jodhpur State Legislative Assembly in 1947
• C. Jambulingam Mudaliar (1857–1906), Indian politician and freedom-fighter
• Gopal Hari Deshmukh, Indian writer, activist, and thinker from Maharashtra, popularly known as Lokhitwadi
• T. M. Jambulingam Mudaliar (1890–1970), philanthropist and freedom fighter who gave 620 acres (250 ha) of land to establish NLC India Limited
• Kurma Venkata Reddy Naidu
  , Chief Minister of Madras Presidency.
• Seth Vishandas Nihalchand, Sindhi politician, social reformer, philanthropist
• Chhotu Ram, Minister for Agriculture and Home Affairs, erstwhile Punjab, 1945. First Indian-origin Speaker of the Punjab Legislative Assembly
• Tuticorin municipality and is considered the father and architect of modern Tuticorin (now called Thoothukudi
  )

• Pushkar Thakur, District Magistrate and Collector of Champaran. Title awarded in 1945 in recognition of his outstanding service as Special Officer for War Risks Insurance for Bihar and Orissa, covering an area larger than that of the United Kingdom, Belgium and the Netherlands combined. The Viceroy Lord Wavell personally wrote a letter congratulating Pushkar Thakur on the contribution of Bihar and Orissa in the National War Effort, which had been the highest in the country. [7]
• Jagan Nath Bhandari
  Idar State^[8]
• Lada Damodar Das, extrajudicial assistant commissioner in the Punjab[4]
• Dewan Jaggatnath, secretary to the municipal committee and district board, Dera Ismail Khan^[6]
• Sahu Parsotam Saran Kothiwala, member of the district board, Moradabad^[4]
• Lala Jai Lal, member of the Municipal Committee, Simla^[4]
• A. Savarinatha Pillai, Assistant Commissioner of Income Tax, Madras Presidency; winner of King's Coronation Award for Distinguished Public Service, London^[9]
• Akshey Kumar Sarkar, superintendent, Department of Commerce and Industry, Government of India^[6]
• Betharam Sarma, sub-deputy collector, Tezpur, Assam^[4]

Commerce and industry

• Jamnalal Bajaj, industrialist; Bajaj later returned the title^[10]
• Dewan Bahadur P. Somasundaram Chettiar, Coimbatore - industrialist and pioneer in textiles.^[11]
• Jagmal Raja Chauhan (1887–1974), better known as "Rai Bahadur Jagmal Raja", industrialist and railway contractor, private banker, aviation pioneer and philanthropist
• Jairam Valji Chauhan MBE (or "Chouhan"; 1892–1956), better known as "Rai Bahadur Jairam Valjee", was a Kutchi railway contractor, mill-owner, miner and philanthropist, at Jairamnagar and Raigarh
• Devraj Daya of
  Kutchi railway contractor, philantropist.^[12]
• Jain community ^[6]
• Gujar Mal Modi
  , founder of the Modi Group
• Oberoi Group

• Jamuna Das Choudhury of Sahebganj, Muzaffarpur, industrialist^[13]
• Hariram Goenka (1862–1935), businessman and cofounder with his brothers, including Badridas Goenka, of Goenka group of Kolkata
• CIE (1883–1973), industrialist and business tycoon; cofounder of the original Goenka Group from Kolkata, of which the RPG Group is a successor; first chairman of the State Bank of India

• OBE, first knighted Indian physician.^[14]
• Kala Azar
• Balkishen Kaul, surgeon, lecturer, and superintendent of Lahore Medical college[4]
• Puttana Venkatramana Raju (1894–1975), civil engineer, industrial advisor to government of India, educationist
• Ram Dhan Singh, pioneer agricultural scientist, principal, College of Agriculture, Lyallpur, erstwhile Punjab, 1947^[15]

Law and justice

• Babu Ram Sadan Bhattacharji, deputy magistrate, Bengal^[4]
• Punjab
  , distinguished lawyer of Punjab High Court, leader of the criminal bar; elected member of Legislative Council of colonial Punjab
• Rajendranath Dutt, judge, Bengal^[4]
• Soti Raghubans Lal, subordinate judge, Shahjehanpur^[4]
• Sadh Achraj Lal, honorary magistrate and member of the municipal board, Mirzapur^[4]
• Jwala Prasad, government pleader^[4]
• Raghunath Sharan, District Judge in Bihar^[16]
• Babu Bahadur Singh, honorary magistrate, Pilibhit^[4]
• Babu Shuhrat Singh, Zemindar of Chandpur and honorary magistrate, Basti^[4]
• N S Nanjundiah (1879–1953), of Nanjangud distinguished advocate of Chief Court of Mysore and a sheristadar.^[17]

Literature and arts

• Appu Nedungadi, author of Kundalatha, the first novel published in Malayalam
• Sir J.J. School of Art
  in Mumbai, where he was also later a professor

Philanthropy, religion and charity

• T. Rattinasami Nadar , founder of Nadar Mahajana Sangam efforts of T. Ratnasamy Nadar, in 1910. There are several schools and colleges under the control of Nadar Mahajana Sangam
• Ranchhodlal Chhotalal, textile mill pioneer and philanthropist
• Dharmarathnakara
  Arcot Narrainsawmy Mudaliar
  , philanthropist
• Amba Prasad, philanthropist of Delhi
• Salig Rām (1829–1898), Postmaster-General for North-Western Provinces; disciple of Shiv Dayal Singh, later succeeding him as guru. Often known by the honorific "Huzur Maharaj"
• Ranadaprasad Saha
  , philanthropist
• Yele Mallappa Shetty (1815–1887), philanthropist who constructed Bangalore's first obstetrics hospital, funded Vani Vilas Hospital construction, and restored Kaadu Malleshwara Temple, Bangalore. The name of the Yele Mallappa Shetty Lake commemorates his contribution to the construction of drought-relieving water storage in the Bangalore region^[6]
• Sardar Bahadur Jagat Singh (Sant) (1884–1951), Lyallpur, pre-partition Punjab Surat Shabd Yoga practitioner and guru
• Gubbi Thotadappa, businessman, philanthropist, founded Dharmachathra (free lodging places for travellers) and free hostels for students throughout Karnataka

Police and emergency services

• United Province
• Calcutta
• P. K. Monnappa, South Indian Police Chief of three states, Madras, Hyderabad and Mysore.
• Jacob Devasahayam, Deputy Inspector General of Police, Madras^[18]
• Satyen Nath (S.N.) Mukherjee, First Indian-origin Deputy Commissioner of Indian Police, Calcutta^[19][20][21]

Other

• Babu Nalini Kanta Ray, Dastidar^{[clarification needed]} of Assam^[4]

See also

• Nawab Bahadur (disambiguation)
• Rai (Indian)
• Raj Ratna

References