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গ্ৰাম্য উপাখ্যান । ه/ومها ASeeLMLAeMAeLSLeLeMLMLMLSS LLLLLSLLLSLLLLSLLALALMAeLMLMLL LALAeLMLL LALALMeLLALSLeLLESLALSLALSL LALSMSLE HESLS guished himself by his knowledge of English and fondness for literature, and carried off many prizes and scholarships. Perhaps, there never was a College which contained at the same time so many brilliant youths all destined to attain to the highest eminence in the various spheres of life, as the Hindu College of that year. Among Raj Narain's fellow-students were Mlichel Mla dh usudan Dutt, the poet, Peary Churn Sircar, the educationist and temperance organiser, Jnanendra Mohan Tagore, the first Indian barrister, Bhudev Mukherji, sometime acting Director of Public Instruction, Bengal, Nil Madhav Mukherji, the Doctor, Jagadish Nath Roy, the first Indian District Superintendent of Police, Gobinda Chandra Dutt, the poetic father of Miss Toru Dutt, and many more. And we can imagine no better proof of Raj Naraian's intellectual powers than this that in that troop of giants he was not the least eminent. Leaving College in 1844 he embraced Brahmạism and two years afterwards entered the service of the Adi Brahmo Samaj, at first as English translator of the *Upanishads. In May 1849, he became Second English Teacher at the Sanskrit College,