(lxv. ) but for the fact that recognition of such qualities as adorn Babu Vihari Lala is sure to encourage others of his class to follow in his footsteps. We are confident that a character and acts of public beneficence such as his cannot long go unrewarded. The role of a prophet is a dangerous game to play; yet we may say that the day is not distant when Babu Vihari Lala's name would be raised to the presentday peerage. From the Telegraph, dated, Saturday, February 25, 1977. There are few families in Calcutta which are as old or at aristocratic as the Bagbazar Mitter family, the original seat of which was Konnagar, on the other side of the river Eughly. But it is neither their wealth nor their lineage which to us appears to constitute theur chiefclaim to the respect of the community or for the matter of that, of the rulers even. To them belongs the God Madan Mohan, the family deity of the ancient and illustrious Rajas of Bishnupur, who orace were independent sovereigns, whose fort at Bishnupur was a marvel, and greater marvels were their guns Dal and Madal. It was Gokul Mitter whe helped the then Raja financially and in lieu of his help received the God, whom he installed in the palatial building
