Quotes:Dajiraj

Zirkoff, Boris

Daji Raja Chandra Singhjee, Thakur Sahib of Wadhwan (?-1885). His Highness was a Prince of the Jhala tribe of Rajputs; he had been educated at the Rajkumar College of Rajkote, where he availed himself of a liberal and varied education. He believed that the ultimate object of good government is the well-being of the people, and he spared neither pains nor money to carry out this most noble precept. He is said to have possessed all the salient traits which mark the character of a wise and just administrator. During his brief reign, he was instrumental in introducing gas into his capital, the city of Wadhwan, in encouraging the building of new suburbs, in providing an abundant supply of good water for the city, in establishing careful administration of the State revenues, and in pursuing the highest form of justice. His liberality to public institutions, and especially to the Talukdari Girasia School, knew no bounds.

Daji Raja was a close friend of both H.P.B. and Col. Olcott, and was the President of the Daji Raja Theosophical Society at Wadhwan. He was a man of exquisite taste and possessed a thorough knowledge of architecture; when in Europe on a trip, he purchased furniture for a palace he was then building. He married the daughter of Raja Gajapati Row, late Member of Council. He attended the anniversary meetings of the T.S. at Bombay, and visited the then newly founded Headquarters at Adyar. He died of tuberculosis. (Cf. The Theosophist, Vol. VI, Supplement to June, 1885, p.. 224.)

Source: Boris de Zirkoff, «H. P. Blavatsky Collected Writings», vol. 4, p. 641