Stray Thoughts on Some Incidents in my Life

was born on the 2oth of January, 1851,-8th Magh, Sakabda 1772, in Calcutta in the house of my maternal grand-father, now No. 50 Hari Ghose f s Street. My mother was at the time the only child of her parents and as her father was a man of means and occupied a high position in the Hindu society of the time, she generally lived with hin^ We were a high class Kayastha family and came originally from East Bengal My great-grand-father married the only sister of Raja Nobo Krishna Bahadur, the founder of the Sobha Bazar Raj Family. After the marriage, or, may be, owing to the marriage, our family came and settled in Calcutta