LIVES OF PARAM GURU HUZUR MAHARAJ

 

PARAM GURU HUZUR MAHARA

PARAM GURU HUZUR MAHARAJ, RAI BHADUR SALIGRAM SAHAB WAS BORN IN PIPALMANDI, AGRA ON FRIDAY THE 14^TH OF MARCH 1839, AT HALF PAST FOUR IN THE MORNING. HIS FATHER SHRI BAHADUR SINGH SAHAB WAS A VIKIL BY PROFESSION AND WAS EXTREMELY RELIGIOUS. THE MOTHER ALSO WAS PIOUS UNASSUMING LADY AND AN AERNEST DEVOTEE. A SADHU HAD SAID THET THIS CHILD WOULD BE FAMOUS AND WOULD BENEFIT MANKIND BESTOWING BOTH RELIGIOUS MERIT AND MATERIAL PROSPERITY. HUZUR MAHARAJ WAS ABOUT FOUR YEAR OLD WHEN HIS FATHER BREATHED HIS LAST. HUZUR MAHARAJ LEARNED PERSIAN AT VERY EARLY AGE THEREAFTER PASSED THE SENIOR CAMBRIDGE EXAMINATION HE STUDIED LOGIC AND PHILOSOPHY ALSO AND ALWAYS STOOD FIRST IN THEOLOGY, HUZUR MAHARAJ HAD THREE SONS AND TWO DAUGHTERS BY HIS SECOND MARRIAGE OF THE SONS, THE SECOND LALA AJUDHYA PRASAD SURVIED THE TWO DAUGHTERS WERE  MARRIED AND EACH LEFT DESCENDANTS.

HUZUR MAHARAJ JOINED GOVERNMENT SERVICE IN 1847 IN THE OFFICE OF THE POSTMASTER GENERAL, NORTH – WESTERN PROVICES (NOW U.P) AND GRADUALLY ROSE TO THE POSITION OF POSTMASTER GANERAL IN 1881. HE RENDERED DISTINGUSHED SERVICES TO THE DEPARTMENT AND WAS RESPONSIBLE IN GREAT MEASURE FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF INDIAN POSTAL DEPARTMENT INTRODUCTION OF MONEY ORDER SCHEME. SAVING BANK ACCOUNTS, INSURANCE OF PARCELS, V.P. PARCELS AND POST CARDS ARE SOME OF THE IMPROVEMENT MADE BY HIS IN RECOGNITION OF HIS SERVIECES HE WAS AWARDED THE TITLE OF RAI BAHADUR IN 1871. HUZUR MAHARAJ HAD DECLINED WHEN SOME SPECIAL AWARD WAS RECOMMENDED FOR HIS SAYING THAT HAD MERELY DISCHARGED HIS DUTY.  

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