Later Mughals v1.c9.s15.3

v1.c9.s15.3

∗ My old acquaintance, Rai Bahadur Nihal Chand Agarwal, an Honorary Magistrate of Muzaffarnagar, in a letter of the 1st Dec., 1893, informs me that Ratan Chand was a native of Jansath town, where he had built a handsome house, now in a ruined state, but still in the hands of his impoverished descendants. He belonged to a sub-caste of the Agarwals called Rajah-ki-baradari (i.e., the Rajah's relations), the reference being to Rajah Agar Sen, the reputed founder of the caste, their ancestor having been that Rajah's son by a concubine. The epithet of baqqal (shop-keeper) attached to Ratan Chand's name, is the Persian version of the vernacular caste name baniya or mahajan (trader).