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 – 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 businessman and industrialist 
        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 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. 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. 
        Later, 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 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

        actor Balraj Sahaney.

3.     David Abraham – yesteryear Character actor in hindi film.

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 etc. He was 
        the Division  Commissioner of Orissa, the highest position 
        reached by any Indian ever. 
 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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