(lxxxviii ) ing indeėd. No one there is in Caleutta - whe, has not heard of the Bagbazar Mitra family-h- Shibits of the God Madan Mohan. Long before Caleabha was anything like a city-when the area now eovered by it was full 'ef swamps, marshes and jungles, with a few tiny hamlets nestling among the thick foliage of the primeval forest, the Mitras had "established thenselves at Baghbazar, vbich they converted inta habitable land, by draining the swamps, excavating tale nke, raiising the land, clearing the jungles and eutting down giants of the vegetable world. They were the 'lambardars' of the village prior to its passing into other hands to finally become the property of the East India Company. The Mitras next turned their attention to commerce, and so sueeessful were they in their deals that Dame Fortune favoured them largely and raised to such opulence that Gokul Mittra's name was one to conjure with. The tales that have been handed down from father to son of this striking figure in old Calcutta focietyof his devout nature, pious life, and unstinted charity would, in these days of modern civilization and westeren enlightenment, appear. incredible. He was known „among his contetu por iries as “Sadhu” Gokul -a title higher in the eyes of a Hindu than even...that of a Maharaja. It was not merely his charity or liherality on the occasion of his mother's "siradh" or obsequies-when, if rivers did irot run bloodids might have been the case in flesh-eating countries, they at least ran curd and milk, but something else
