Famous Freemasons from India

                           NEWS LETTER

                          FREEMEN

Sr. No 2/4            Originally published on April 1^st, 2007

Dear Brethren,

After my last News Letter, many brethren have written to me to know more about well known Free masons from India. They are:-

 

PRESIDENTS OF INDIA

1.     President Dr. Rajendra Prasad – Freedom fighter and the first

        President of Independent India.

2.     President Dr. S. Radhakrishnan – Freedom fighter, first Vice President    
        and the second President of Independent India.

3.     President Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed.

KINGS / PATRIARCHES OF INDIA

1.     Maharaja Ganga Singh of Bikaner.

2.     Maharaja Duleep Singh of Punjab.

3.     Maharaja Randheer Singh of Punjab.

4.     Maharaja Digvijay Singhji of Nawanagar.

5.     Maharaja Mahinder Bhupinder Singh of Patiala.

6.     Maharaja Yadvinder Singh of Patiala.

7.     Maharaja Sir Bhawani Singh of Jhalawar.

8.     Maharaja N.N. Bhup of Coochbehar.

9.     Maharaja J.N. Bhup of Coochbehar.

10.    Maharaja R.J. Bhup of Coochbehar.

11.   Maharaja Viziaram Raj – Maharaja of Vizianagaram.

12.    Maharaja Chhatarsinghji of Rajpipla.

13.    Maharaja Mayurdhwaj Jaladhip of Dhrangadhara.

14.    Thakursaheb Daulatsinhji – Prince of Limdi.

15.    Sir Gangadharrrao Patwardhan – Prince of Miraj.

16.    Shrimant Shankarrao Patwardhan – Ruler of Jamkhandi.

17.    Balasaheb Pant – Aundh Pratinidhi of Chhatrapati Shahu

        Maharaj.

18.    Pantbahadur Raghunathrao Shankarrao – Chief of Bhor.

19.    H.H. Maj. General Sir Syed Reza Ali Khan – The Nawab of

        Rampur.

20.    H.H. Maj. General Sir Syed Ahmed Ali Khan – The Nawab of

        Rampur, The First Grand Master of the Grand Lodge of India,

        when it was formed in November 1961.

21.    H.H. Sahebzada Abu Samad Khan – Royal family of Rampur

22.    H.H. Ibrahim Khan – Nawab of Sachin.

23.    H.H. Mirza Husain Yawar Khan – Nawab of Cambay.

24.    Sheikh Abdul Khaliq, heir apparent of Magrol.

25.    Maharajkumar Mohammad Amir Hyder Khan of Mahmudabad.

26.    Khan Mohammed Tolay - Nawabzada of Palanpur.

27.    Syed Hussam Bilgrami – Nawabzada Utmullah Bahadur of

         Hyderabad State.

28.    Nawab Jung Nawab Hyder, Hyderabad State.

29.    Nawab Sir Amin Jung Jung Bahadur, Hyderabad State.

30.    Chintamanrao Patwardhan – Chief of Sangli (Royal family of

        Miraj). (1921-1980)

31.    Sampatrao Gaikwad, Sorbga of Baroda State.

32.    Shrimant Bhau Ramrao Venkatrao of Ramdurg State.

33.    Diwan Suryashankar Mehta of Bhuj.

34.    Maharaja Jaya Chamaraja Wadeyar of Mysore

35.    Srikanta Datta Narasimharaja Wadiyar          

36.    His Holiness Sir Sultan Mohamed Shah, Aga Khan

37.    The Nawab Of Pataudi Mansur Ali Khan          

38.    Lt.Gen.H.H.Maharaja Jivaji Rao Scindia ,Maharaja of Scindia

39.    Mr Madhav Rao Scindia , Maharaja of Scindia

40.    Maharaja of Bobbili

41.    Maharaja Amrinder Singh of Patiala, Punjab & former Chief

        Minister of Punjab.

42.    Maharajkumar Mohammad Amir Hyder Khan  

43.    Nawabzada Khan Mohammed Tolay              

44.    Nawabzada Syed Hussam Bilgrami                        

45.    Nawab Jung Nawab Hyder                           

46.    Nawab Sir Amin Jung Jung Bahadur               

47.    Sampatrao Gaikwad                                    

48.    Shrimant Bhau Ramrao Venkatrao        

49.    Sir C.P. Ramaswamy Iyer – Divan of Travancore.

50.    H. H. Marthanda Varma of State of Travancore.

GOVERNERS

1.     Dr C Gopalachari 1^st Governor General Of India

2.     Dr. P.V. Cherian – Governor of Maharashtra.

3.     Immunidin Nawab of Laharu Governer of Hiachal Pradesh &

        Haryana

INDUSTRIALSTS OF INDIA

1.     Sir Dorabji Jamshedji Tata – Barrister, Industrialist.

2.     J.R.D. Tata – Doyen of Indian Industry and Chairman of the

        House of Tatas, India’s leading Industrial House. JRD was a

        French Mason.

3.     Goculdas Narottam Morarjee – Owner of the Morarjee Goculdas

        Spinning Mills.

4.     Ebrahim Currimbhoy – Mill Owner.

5.     Ramesh Mafatlal – Mafatlal Industries

6.     Dr Gaur Hari Singhania – Singhania Industries

7.     Sitaram Jaipuria  -

8.     Rai Bahadur Kundan Lal – Dalmia Industries

9.     Dwarkadas Narainji – Merchant Prince.

10.    Purshottamdas Thakurdas – Textile merchant and mill owner.

11.    T.G. Khaitan – Mill Owner.

12.    Dharamsey Morarjee – Mill Owner.

13.    Narsingir Pratapgir – Mill Owner.

14.    Mohammadbhoy Currimbhoy Ebrahim – Businessman, Merchant

        Prince.

15.    Sir Purushotamdas Thakurdas. Industrialist - Cotton magnate of

        Mumbai

16.    Ebrahim Rahimtulla Currimbhoy – Merchant.

17.    S.V. Sista – a leading name in the Indian advertising scene.

18.    Ayaz Peerbhoy - a leading name in the Indian advertising scene.

19.    G. L. Raheja. Well known Builder

20.    Jamshed NUSSERWANJI GUZDER Mr. Guzder, is a prominent

        figure in the business and industrial life of Mumbai.

21.    Cav.Dr.G.K Devarajulu. Industrialist.  textile industry

22.    Ardaseer Cursetjee Wadia was the first Indian to be elected a fellow of 
        the Royal Society; he was the first to introduce lighting by gas in 
        Bombay. The picture of the First day Cover issued by the Post and 
        telegraphs department depicts the gas lamps installed by him in one of 
        the streets in Bombay. he was the first to build an ocean going steam 
        vessel in India.

23.    V N Sharma, Industralist Vaidyanath Ayurvedic.

24.    Rai Saheb Devi Dass Mehra. Railway Contractor

POLITICAL LEADERS

1.     W.C. Bannerjee - A founder member of the Indian National

        Congress.

2.     Pandit Motilal Nehru – Freedom fighter and father of Pandit

       Jawaharlal Nehru, the first Prime Minister of Independent India.

3.     Dr. B.G. Kher - First Chief Minister (then called the Hon. Prime

        Minister) of Bombay State after Independence.

4.     Dr. Badruddin Tyabji – President, Indian National Congress,

        Madras, 1887. Appointed Judge of the Bombay High Court,

        1895. Presided over the Mahomedan Educational Conference,

        Bombay 1903 and pleaded for women education and abolition of

        purda. Was associated with Aligarh College. Died August 11,

        1909

5.     Sir Sayyad Ahmad Khan Dahlavi – President of the Bombay

        Legislative Assembly.

6.     Sardar Sir R.J. Vakil – Minister, Governor’s Council of Bombay.

7.     DADABHAI NAOROJI:- Appointed Dewan of Baroda, 1874. Nominated to 
        Bombay Legislative Council 1885. President, Indian National Congress, 
        Calcutta 1886. Lahore,1892 and, Calcutta 1906. Elected to Parliament 
        from Central Finsbury 1892. Published his great book, "Poverty and 
        Un-British Rule in India". Died 1917

8.     Sir. Rash Behari Ghosh Member, Bengal Legislative Council 1889. 
        Member of the Imperial Legislative Council 1891 and 1893. President of 
        the Faculty of Law, Calcutta University 1893-1895. Member of the 
        Congress delegation to England 1917. Presided over the joint session of 
        Indian Congress Committee and the Council of the Muslims League at 
        Calcutta 1917.

9.     Sir. Phirozeshah Mehta :- Founder President of the Bombay Presidency   
        Association. Associated with the Congress from its very inception. 
        Member, Bombay Legislative Council, 1886. President Indian National 
        Congress, Calcutta 1890. Elected to the Imperial Legislative Council 
        1893. Knighted 1902.  Vice-Chancellor of the Bombay University. In  
        1911,  started the Central Bank of India. Founded the Bombay Chronicle
        in 1913.

LEGAL LUMINAIRES OF INDIA

1.     Justice D.P. Madon

2.     Justice Prakash Narain.

3.     Justice P.N.Khanna

4.     Justice G Ramanujam

5.     Justice S.S.Ali

6.     Justice R Bhattacharya

7.     Justice V Ramaswamy

8.     Justice S Natarajan

9.     Chief Justice A.B.Saharya

10.    Justice S Padmanabhan

11     Justice V Ratnam

12     Justice B.S.Sinha

13     Chief Justice Devinder Gupta

14     Justice U Sinha

15     Justice A. R. Lakshmanan (S.C.)

16     Justice S Jagadeesan

17     Justice K Veeraswami

18     Justice T Ramprasad Rao

19     Justice N. S. Ramaswamy

20     Justice R N Mittal

21     Chief Justice D S Sinha

22     Justice S K Mahajan

23     Justice D D Sood

24     Bhulabhai Desai – Advocate.

25     Sir Justice N.G. Chandavarkar 

26     P.M. Kanga – Solicitor.

27     Justice J.B. Kanga                                                       

28     Justice D.D. Davar                                                      

29     Sir Chimanlal Setalvad

30.    Justice Dr. Badruddin Tyabji

RELIGOUS PERSONALITIES OF INDIA

1.     Swami Vivekananda - Philosopher and theologian known all over

        the world.

2.     Keshub Chunder Sen  (1838-1884) a Bengali intellectual and a noted  
        religious reformer. Keshub Chunder Sen was a leading light of the 
        Brahmo Samaj for several decades. In later life, he established a 
        syncretic school of spiritualism, called the Nabo Bidhan or 'New 
        Dispensation', which he intended to amalgamate the best principles of 
        Christianity and of the western spiritual tradition with Hinduism.

SOCIAL REFORMERS and PHILANTHROPISTS

1.     Sir Jamsetjee Jeejeebhoy – Philanthropist and social reformer.

2.     Dadabhoy Nowroji Tata  -First Indian to be elected to the British

        house of Commons in the 19th century.

3.     D.L. Vaidya – Solicitor, Philanthropist and social reformer.

MEDICAL PRACTITIONERS

1.     Sir Bhalchandra K. Pradhan – Medical Practitioner, after whom

        the Sir Bhalchandra Road, Dadar, Mumbai is named.

2.     Dr. Sir Tehmuiji Nariman – Medical Practitioner.

3.     Dr. R.N. Cooper – Medical practitioner after whom the Dr. R.N.

        Cooper Muncipal General Hospital is named.

4.     Dr. D.R. Bhandarkar – Indologist after whom the Bhandarkar

        Institute of Indology, Pune is named.

5.     Dr. Shantilal J. Mehta, the doyen of the medical profession in

        India who translated Seth Lokoomal Chanrai's vision into reality.

        Founder Jaslok Hospital.

ENTERTAINERS / ARTISTS

1.     Tagore, Gaganendranath (1867-1938) painter and art

        connoisseur

2.     Parikshit Sahni – Well known film actor and son of legendary

        actor Balraj Sahaney.

3.     David Abraham – Character actor in hindi films for many years.

4.     Ashok Kumar Ganguly.

EDUCATIONISTS

1.     M.R. Jayakar – Bar-at law, Vice Chancellor of Poona University.

2.     Prof M S Thacker.

3.     Sir Reginald Spence founder of Barnes School, Nashik.

4.     Hardeep Sikand.

5.     Sir Syed Ahmed Khan Bahadur. 1817 –1898, commonly known as Sir  
        Syed, was an educator who pioneered modern education for the Muslim 
        community in India by founding the Muhammedan Anglo-Oriental 
        College, which later developed into the Aligarh Muslim University.

SERVICEMEN

1.     C.A.Ramakrishnan, I.C.S.

2.     Romesh Chandra Dutt started of his administrative career in the year  
        1871, as an Assistant Magistrate, Alipore. Later on he worked as Relief 
        Officer in Meherpur, Nadia and in Dakhin Shahbazpur, Bakerganj. He   
        was  the District Magistrate of Bankura, Balasore,Bakerganj, Pabna,
        Mymensingh, Burdwan, Midnapur and other places. He was the Division 
        Commissioner of Orissa, the highest position reached by any Indian 
        ever. He retired in the age of 49, in the year 1897.
3.     Lt. Gen. Kalwant Singh GOC-in-C, Western Commond.

4.     M.P. Kapadia – Assistant Commissioner of Income Tax.

5.     D.R. Pradhan – Chief Secretary, Govt. of Maharashtra.

6.     R.K. Saiyad – Director of Postal Services.

7.     Sorab M. Bharucha – District Collector of Thane District.

and many others

Brotherly yours

KAPS

 

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