(xliv. ) of the Mitra family, Sitaram or Uttaram Mitra, came to Calcutta, Bagbazar was a boggay marsh. Sitaram cleared the jungle, and built a samli dwelling house. Sitaram was appointed Lambarder when Raja Nabakissen, the founder of the Sovabazer Baj family, as a reward of his faithful services to the British, obtained the grant of Sutanuti. Sitaram or Uttaram however, gave up his Lambardarship shortly after and turned his attention to salt business. The name of Sitaram or, Uttaram Mitra is not extinct, but that of his son, Gokul Chandra Mitra, or Gokul Mitra, as he is popularly known, is yet held in great honour anong the Hindus of Calcutta. Gokul Mitra was otherwise known as Sadhu Gokul for his piety and munificent charities. It is said that Gokul considerably enlarged the property he inherited from his father by carrying on large speculations in salt which his father also did. In Raja Benoy Krishna's "Early History of Calcutta,' the following mention is made of the early Hindu families of Calcutta, including the Mitra family of Bagbazar : “The ancient and wealthy Mullick families of Barabazar and Chorebagan, the ancestors of Rajah Sukhomoy Ray, Ramdulal Dey, Moti Lall Seal, the ancestors of Kali Prosanno Sing, Gokul Mitra of Bagbaear and several other noted families, settled in Oalcutta previous to the Engish settlement and after the battle of Plassey.' Sadhu Gokul, as we have mentioned, was a man of great devotion and piety, and it is to these qualities that he is said to have owed his prosperity. From
