The person In 1895, he was appointed Chief Justice of the High Court of
Nizam's
Kingdom. After staying there for almost 3 years, he returned to Patna again and started practicing. But soon he was suffering from paralysis and he limited his activity to the library only. Due to his illness, he could not complete his activities. Rs.8000 to pay debt and library secretary and Rs. 200 were sanctioned as pension. He could not recover from paralysis and died on 3 August 1908.
Library The library finds its origin in private collection of a bibliophile Mohammad Bakhsh and expanded by his son Khuda Bakhsh, who inherited 1,400 manuscripts and continued to add to the collection and eventually converted it into a private library by 1880. The library was opened to public upon its inauguration by Sir
Charles Alfred Elliott,
Governor of Bengal on 5 October 1891. After partition in 1947, Dr.
S.V. Sohoni played a key role in ensuring that the collections were retained in India. In 1969 through a
Federal Legislation, an Act of Parliament, namely 'Khuda Bakhsh Oriental Public Library Act' (1969), the
Government of India declared Khuda Bakhsh Oriental Public Library a centre of national importance and government took over the funding, maintenance and development of the library. Today it continues to attract scholars from all over the world. In 2021, the demolition of parts of the historic library building was proposed as part of a project to construct a flyover. This has sparked controversy and several activists and organisations including
INTACH have appealed against the demolition. ==Collection==