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| {{short description|Title of honor issued in British Raj}}
| | Rao Saheb is used to refer Yadav caste of Haryana.<ref>https://www.google.co.in/books/edition/Haryana/qUZuAAAAMAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&bsq=castes+of+haryana&dq=castes+of+haryana&printsec=frontcover</ref> <ref>https://www.google.co.in/books/edition/Rajasthan/iKsqzB4P1ioC?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=rao+saheb+rajasthan&pg=PA44&printsec=frontcover</ref> <ref>http://yadavhistory.com/short_history</ref> <ref>https://www.google.co.in/books/edition/Haryana_Past_and_Present/6n7vV0eiS3YC?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=rao+saheb+haryana&printsec=frontcover</ref> |
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| '''Rai Sahib''' / '''Roy Sahib''' / '''Rao Sahib''' abbreviated '''R.S.''', was a [[title of honour]] issued during the era of [[British Raj|British rule]] in India to individuals who performed faithful service or acts of public welfare to the nation.<ref name=Dorling>{{Cite book |author=H. Taprell Dorling.|title= Ribbons and Medals|page=111|publisher= A.H.Baldwin & Sons, London|year=1956}}</ref> From 1911 the title was accompanied by a special [[Title Badge (India)|Title Badge]]. Translated, ''Rai'' means "King" ''sahib'' means "leader".<ref>{{cite book|title=Hanklyn-janklin By Nigel B. Hankin|year=2003|page=404|isbn=9788187943044|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7BdxLtC1_ucC&pg=PA404|last1=Hankin|first1=Nigel B.}}</ref>
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| [[File:Rao Sahib.jpg|right|thumb|Image of the [[Title Badge (India)|Title Badge]] awarded during the reign of [[George VI]]. For another image of the badge see link<ref>[http://www.omsa.org/photopost/showphoto.php?photo=65&size=big&cat= Image of Rao Sahib Medal]</ref>]]
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| This was the start level title usually awarded to civilians, which could later be upgraded to [[Rao Bahadur]] and then to [[Dewan Bahadur]] titles.<ref name=j>{{cite web|url=http://www.quilahouse.com/dewan-bahadur.htm|title=Quila House and the Jalan Collection: Dewan Bahadur|work=quilahouse.com|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110215130229/http://www.quilahouse.com/dewan-bahadur.htm|archive-date=15 February 2011|access-date=21 April 2022}}</ref>
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| The title styled ''Rai Sahib'' were awarded to [[Hindu]] people of [[North India]], Rao Saheb in [[Maharashtra]] and styled ''Rao Sahib'' to Hindu people of South India, however, they were both of same category and spelling was altered to meet with regional differences of pronunciation.<ref name="worldofcoins">{{cite web|url=http://www.worldofcoins.eu/forum/index.php?topic=21524.0|title=British India: INDIAN TITLE BADGE (MYB # 327), RAO BAHADUR & RAO SAHIB MEDALS|publisher=worldofcoins.eu|access-date=18 October 2014}}</ref>
| | ==History== |
| | | In early 8th century, yadava king Charu Rao moved from Mathura and established Ahirwal state with Rewari as its capital, many Yaduvanshi Ahirs founded Jagirs in its vicinity. People and other Kings used to call These jagirdars [[Rao Sahab]]. <ref>https://www.google.co.in/books/edition/Biography_and_Genealogy_Master_Index/S-PiAAAAMAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=charu+rao&pg=PA295&printsec=frontcover</ref> <ref>https://www.google.co.in/books/edition/India_Today/X29DAAAAYAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&bsq=charu+rao&dq=charu+rao&printsec=frontcover</ref> |
| The Rai Sahib/Rao Sahib/Roy Sahib and other similar titles issued during British Raj were disestablished in 1947 upon independence of India.<ref>Introduction to the Constitution of India By Sharma, Sharma B.k.. 2007. p. 83.</ref>
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| == Some people awarded the Rai Sahib / Roy Sahib / Rao Sahib title ==
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| * Rao Bahadur Satyendra Nath Mukherjee, Awarded Rai Saheb on 4 June 1934. He was the first Indian Origin Deputy Commissioner of Police, Calcutta.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://indiankanoon.org/doc/562736/|title=Santi Priya Mukherjee vs Surendra Nath Chatterjee on 28 November, 1950|website=indiankanoon.org|access-date=27 March 2020}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|last1=Channa|first1=Subhadra Mitra|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Qak0AAAAQBAJ&q=rai+bahadur+s.n.+mukherjee&pg=PA79|title=Gender in South Asia|last2=Channa|first2=Subhadra|date=5 September 2013|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=978-1-107-04361-9|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|last=Gupta (IAS.)|first=G. S.|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=76ZIAAAAYAAJ&q=S.N.+Mukherjee|title=Free Masonry in India|date=1991|publisher=G.S. Gupta|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|author=India Supreme Court|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=a4M2AAAAIAAJ&q=Deputy+commissioner+S.N.+Mukherjee|title=Indian Factories & Labour Reports|date=1963|publisher=Law Publishing House.|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last1=Police |first1=Calcutta Commissioner of |title=Annual Report on the Police Administration of the Town of Calcutta and Its Suburbs |date=1933 |page=2 |url=https://www.google.co.in/books/edition/Annual_Report_on_the_Police_Administrati/4sIOWtbKjzUC?hl=en&gbpv=1&bsq=Rai+sahib+Satyendra+Nath+Mukherjee&dq=Rai+sahib+Satyendra+Nath+Mukherjee&printsec=frontcover |language=en}}</ref>
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| *Rao Sahib [[Ayyathan Gopalan]] (Kerala, India) a.k.a. "Darsarji" – Doctor, chief surgeon, hospital superintendent and in charges, medical school professor and also served as the magistrate of Malabar region of Kerala (during British rule in India), social reformer of Kerala. -awarded Raisahib on 17 November 1917 by British Government.
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| *Pandit Wazir Chand Trikha, Jhang, Pakistan (India) – Chief Accounts officer northern railways.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=4clbRzW8nYkC&q=rai+sahib+wazir+chand+trikha&pg=PA125|title=Maharaja Ranjit Singh|last=Kaur|first=Madanjit|date=2008|publisher=Unistar Books|isbn=9788189899547|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|url=http://archive.org/details/ThreeLettersOfMaharaniJindKaurDr.GandaSingh|title=Three Letters of Maharani Jind Kaur – Dr. Ganda Singh|last=Sikh Digital Library|date=1 April 1964|publisher=Sikh Digital Library|others=Sikh Digital Library}}</ref>
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| *[[Nagendra Kumar Bhattacharyya]] – Commissioner of [[Baharampur|Berhampore]] 1932–1948, Murshidabad District, West Bengal
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| *[[Ramnath Goenka]], Bombay – newspaper editor and businessman
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| *[[Mulji Jagmal Sawaria]], [[Bilaspur, Chhattisgarh]] – miner
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| *[[A. Y. S. Parisutha Nadar]], [[Thanjavur]] – Politician, Industrialist
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| *[[Abraham Pandithar]] – Tamil musicologist, composer and a traditional medicine practitioner (2 August 1859 – 31 August 1919)
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| *[[Dinanath Atmaram Dalvi]] (1844–1897) SubJudge, later Subordinate Judge Bombay Presidency, Senior Dakshina Fellow Elphinstone College Bombay, Fellow Bombay University and Author of the book "An Examination of Sir Isaac Newton's Rule for finding the Number of Imaginary Square Roots in an Equation".<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=J2u7tgAACAAJ|title=An Examination of Sir Isaac Newton's Rule for Finding the Number of Imaginary Roots in an Equation: With Geometrical and Mechanical Theorems and a Trigonometrical Formula|first=Dinanath Atmaram|last=Dalvi|date=1 January 1869|publisher=Education Society's Press, Byculla|via=Google Books}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|title=The India Office and Burma Office List |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ERUbAQAAIAAJ&q=dinanath+atmaram+dalvi|year=1888|page=146}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ERUbAQAAIAAJ&q=raosaheb+dinanath+dalvi|title=The India Office and Burma Office List|date=1 January 1888|via=Google Books}}</ref>
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| *[[Dukhan Ram]] – Indian ophthalmologist, legislator and [[Padma Bhushan]] recipient<ref name="Padma Bhushan Dr. Dukhan Ram">{{cite web | url=http://aoibj.org/awards/name/padma-bhushan-ram/ | title=Padma Bhushan Dr. Dukhan Ram | publisher=Association of Otolaryngologists of India | date=2013 | access-date=9 July 2016 | url-status=dead | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160706152008/http://aoibj.org/awards/name/padma-bhushan-ram/ | archive-date=6 July 2016 }}</ref>
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| *Mahabir Prasad Misra – Educator, Madhubani District, Dharbanga.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://archive.org/details/indianbiographic00raoc|title=The Indian biographical dictionary (PAGE 30)|last=Rao|first=C. Hayavando|date=1915|publisher=Madras : Pillar|others=University of California Libraries}}</ref>
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| *[[Gidugu Venkata Ramamurthy]] – Telugu linguist
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| *[[Ganpatrao Narayanrao Madiman]] – Noted businessman and banker from Hubli, Karnataka.
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| *Kashinath Krishna Kalkar – Dy Collector of [[Amalner]]<ref>{{cite book |last1=Peter |first1=Thomas |title=The Royal Coronation Number and Who's who in India, Burma and Ceylon |publisher=Sun Publishing House |pages=584 |url=https://www.google.co.in/books/edition/The_Royal_Coronation_Number_and_Who_s_wh/4BAbAAAAIAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&bsq=Kashinath++Kalkar&dq=Kashinath++Kalkar&printsec=frontcover |access-date=1 December 2020 |language=en}}</ref>
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| *[[Koovarji Karsan Rathor]] – industrialist from [[Cuttack]]<ref name=t/>
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| *[[Kuppusamy Kodandapani Pillai]] – Deputy Collector, Protector of Emigrants, Special Officer for South African Repatriates and Controller of Emigration from [[Madras]]<ref>{{cite book |last1=Saint George (India) |first1=Fort |title=Fort St. George Gazette|page=4 |url=https://archive.org/details/gazette.stgeorge.TG1943.TG1943JAN26/page/n3/mode/2up|year=1943|publisher=Madras}}</ref>
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| * Harilal Shamji – philanthropist and industrialist from [[Raigarh]]<ref>{{cite book |last1=Pradesh (India) |first1=Madhya |title=Madhya Pradesh Gazette |pages=9 |url=https://www.google.co.in/books/edition/Madhya_Pradesh_Gazette/Csl436ikUnMC?hl=en&gbpv=1&bsq=rai+saheb+harilal+shamji&dq=rai+saheb+harilal+shamji&printsec=frontcover |access-date=2 December 2020 |language=en}}</ref><ref name=t>{{cite book |last1=Lewis |first1=Sir Hawthorne |title=Speeches Delivered by His Excellency Sir Hawthorne Lewis, ..., Governor of Orissa, 1941–1946 |publisher=Government of Orissa |pages=191 |url=https://www.google.co.in/books/edition/Speeches_Delivered_by_His_Excellency_Sir/rDTU2NdUOTgC?hl=en&gbpv=1&bsq=rai+saheb+harilal+shamji&dq=rai+saheb+harilal+shamji&printsec=frontcover |language=en}}</ref>
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| ==See also==
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| *[[Rao Bahadur]]
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| *[[Dewan Bahadur]]
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| *[[Raj Ratna]]
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| *[[Title Badge (India)]]
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| ==References==
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| ==External links==
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| *[http://www.omsa.org/photopost/showphoto.php?photo=65&size=big&cat= Image of Indian Title Badge, George V, first variety, 3rd class]
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