এই পাতাটির মুদ্রণ সংশোধন করা প্রয়োজন।
जच्छांझरकीञ्च १२e পূ. ৬৩–কালীনাথ রায় চৌধুরী বর্তমান গ্রন্থের অনেকগুলি সংবাদে টাকার কালীনাথ রায় চৌধুরীর উল্লেখ আছে। তাহার মৃত্যুর পর সামরিক পত্রে তাহার সম্বন্ধে যাহা লিখিত হইয়াছিল, তাহার কিছু কিছু নিম্নে উদ্ধত হইল – BOY KALEENATH CHOWDREE.
- During the last week, native society has been deprived of one of its chief ornaments and benefactors, by the death of Roy Kaleenath Chowdree, of Takee. He was descended from one of the most ancient families among the landed aristocracy of the country. While almost all the rich and influential rajahs and baboos of Calcutta, who maintain a figure in society, belong to families which are but of yesterday, the Chowdrees of Takeo were respected as zemindars for many years before the advent of the English. This naturally gave him a claim to distinction ; but a nobler and higher claim to honour arose from the liberality of his own views, and his large pecuniary generosity. He was among the most devoted admirers and followers of that truly great man, Rammohun Roy, and assisted with him in the establishment of the Brumha Subha. He was foremost in the ranks of those who came forward to congratulate Lord William Bentinck on the abolition of suttees, and he nobly threw the whole weight of his possessions, and the influence of his ancestral dignity, into the liberal scale, at a time when the members of the Dhurma Subha were raising so loud an outcry against the British Government in India. He subsequently established an English seminary at his family residence at Takee, in connexion with the mission of the General Assembly, which he continued in great part to maintain from his own funds. He also constructed a public road, a work of no ordinary utility, at an expense of Rs. 80,000. Following the example of his friend and associate in liberality, Dwarkanath Tagore, he has bequeathed a lac of rupees, of which the interest is to be applied to public objects after his death.
He died without a title. A title could scarcely have .de to his reputation, but it would have redounded to the credit of the British Government ; and we are sorry that, when honours were bestowed on others, his name was passed over. Phere Wąs doubtless some magnanimity in selecting for e istinctio of rajah those who had organized a strong and violent opposition to Government, in reference to one of its most important
