of
Gondal GCSI, GCIE, in a 1911 photograph, during his visit to London for the coronation of King George V. He is wearing the mantle, collar and star of a Knight Grand Commander of the
Order of the Indian Empire. File:Maharajah de Jammu et Kashmir (à g.), maharajah de Bikaner (CN) - btv1b53236964f.jpg|thumb|center|(L to R)] Maharaja
Hari Singh GCSI, GCIE J&K, Maharaja
Ganga Singh GCSI, GCIE Bikaner in a 1930 photograph, during their visit to London for representing
Princes to King George V during First
Round Table Conference. Maharaja Hari Singh is wearing the sash, star and badge of a Knight Grand Commander of the
Order of the Indian Empire and Maharaja Ganga Singh is wearing the sash, star and badge of a Knight Grand Commander of the
Order of the Star of India. • In 1931 The
Raja Dhau Raghubir Bakshi Singh was created a
Companion of the Most Eminent Order of the Indian Empire and was given the title of
C.I.E. He was the
Raja of
Bharatpur and reigned from 27 March 1929 to 15 August 1947. He was also senior member of the council and president (). • On 1 January 1883, the
Raja Mir Syed Muhammad Baquar Ali Khan was created a
Companion of the Most Eminent Order of the Indian Empire and was given the title of
C.I.E. He was the
Mir of Kotaha and the
Raja of
Morni and
Pindrawal • 1933
Khan Bahadur Sir Mohammad Usman of Madras was conferred the title of Knight Commander Order of the Indian Empire. Sir Mohammad Usman became the first Indian acting
Governor of Madras Presidency and a member of the
Viceroy’s Executive Council. On 14 June 1945, he was appointed a
KCSI. Usman Road, a thoroughfare in
T. Nagar,
Chennai is named after him.
Sir Muhammad Usman of Madras KCSI KCIE in his official regalia, photographed for his official picture as
Governor of Madras Presidency 1934. The first two kings of
Bhutan were presented with the KCIE: •
Ugyen Wangchuck, the first King, received the KCIE in 1905 from
John Claude White, the first Political Officer in Gangtok, Sikkim. He was promoted to a GCIE in 1921. •
Jigme Wangchuck, the second King, received the KCIE in 1931 from Lieutenant-Colonel J.L.R. Weir, also the Political Officer in Gangtok at the time. wearing GCSI and GCIE stars Other appointees include: • Sheikh
Khaz'al Khan of Mohammerah received the GCIE in 1916, promoted from a KCIE in 1910. • Raja Sir
S. Ramaswami Mudaliar was made a CIE on 6 June 1885. • Mahamahopadhyay Pandit
Mahesh Chandra Nyayratna Bhattacharyya of Calcutta, eminent Sanskrit scholar, principal of the
Sanskrit College, academic administrator, philanthropist and social reformer. He was made a Companion of the Most Eminent Order of the Indian Empire (CIE) on 24 May 1881, six years before the title of
Mahamahopadhyay was conferred as a personal distinction on the occasion of the Jubilee of the reign of Queen Victoria, for eminence in oriental learning. He was arguably the first
Bengali CIE. The titles entitled him to take rank in the
Durbar immediately after titular Rajas. •
Prabhu Narayan Singh of Benares, The
Maharaja of Benares from the
Royal House of Benares received the KCIE in 1892. Sir Kumarapuram Seshadri Iyer (1 June 1845 – 13 September 1901), who served as the 15th Diwan of Mysore from 1883 to 1901 was also awarded KCIE. • Sir
M. Visvesvaraya, a notable Engineer and Statesman, who served as the 19th
Diwan of Mysore from 1912 to 1918, received the KCIE from
King George V in 1915. • Sir
V. Bhashyam Aiyangar, The first Indian to be appointed Advocate-General of the Madras Presidency and Law member of the executive council of the Governor of Madras between 1897 and 1900, was created as a CIE in 1895, however his later promotion to the rank of
Knight Bachelor in 1900 often overshadows his CIE status. •
Mahadev Govind Ranade, a distinguished Indian scholar, social reformer and author. He was a founding member of the Indian National Congress[1] and owned several designations as member of the Bombay legislative council, member of the finance committee at the centre, and the judge of Bombay High Court. In 1897, Ranade served on a committee charged with the task of enumerating imperial and provincial expenditure and making recommendations for financial retrenchment. This service won him the decoration of CIE. • Sir
Jadunath Sarkar, a distinguished
Indian Bengali historian and aristocrat. •
Nawab Sir Khwaja Salimullah Bahadur of Dhaka Knight Grand Commander of the Order of the Indian Empire (GCIE) – 23 December 1911, Knight Commander of the Order of the Star of India (KCSI) – New Year Honours, 1909, Companion of the Order of the Star of India (CSI) – New Year Honours, 1906. •
Abdul Karim, "the Munshi", Queen Victoria's favourite Indian servant, was created a CIE. Another C.I.E was John Malaise Graham, from the Royal Scots Greys for service. Received in 1947. •
Nawab Sir Imam Buksh Khan Mazari, Nawab of
Rojhan Mazari •
Babu Mahendranath Roy, a distinguished
lawyer and educationist, the first elected chairman of the
Howrah Municipal Corporation was made a CIE in 1914. •
Rao Bahadur Kanti Chandra Mukharji (Chief Member of the Jaipur State council, Member of the Famine Commission of India)was made a CIE in 1891. •
Nawaab Syed Shamsul Huda was made a KCIE in 1916. •
Jagadish Chandra Bose was made a CIE in 1903. •
Sir Md. Azizul Haque was made a CIE in 1937. •
Khwaja Nazimuddin was made a KCIE in 1934, promoted from a CIE in 1926 •
C.D. Deshmukh was appointed a CIE in 1937. •
Sir Narayanan R. Pillai, a member of the ICS and later the first Secretary of External Affairs of India, was appointed a CIE in 1939 and knighted with the KCIE in 1946. •
Benegal Rama Rau was appointed a CIE in 1931. •
Colonel Rao Bahadur Thakur Sir Sadul Singh of
Rora was appointed a CIE in 1920. •
Atul Chandra Chatterjee was appointed a CIE in 1919, knighted with the KCIE in 1925 and promoted to a GCIE in 1933. •
Bashir Hussain Zaidi was appointed a CIE in 1941. •
Iskander Mirza was made a CIE in 1945. • Sheikh
Isa ibn Ali Al Khalifa, Ruler of
Bahrain, was made a KCIE in 1919, as was his son, Sheikh
Hamad ibn Isa Al Khalifa (1872–1942) in 1935. His grandson, Sheikh
Salman ibn Hamad Al Khalifa (1895–1961), was also made a KCIE in 1943. •
Nawab Sayyid Hassan Ali Mirza Khan Bahadur,
Nawab of Murshidabad, received the KCIE in 1887 and was promoted to a GCIE in 1890. •
Maharaja Rameshwar Prasad Singh of Singrauli, received the GCIE on 8 October 1945, for his contribution to both the
World Wars •
Emperor Gojong of
Korea received the GCIE in 1900. •
Lakhajirajsinhji II Bavajirajsinhji, 12th Thakore Saheb of Rajkot, was created a KCIE in 1908. • Sheikh
Mubarak Al Sabah, the 7th ruler of the
Sheikhdom of Kuwait received the KCIE in 1911. His grandson, the 10th Ruler of the Sheikhdom of Kuwait Sheikh
Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah received one in 1930, promoted from a CIE in 1922. •
Raja of Panagal, Premier of
Madras from 1921 to 1926 was awarded a CIE and later made KCIE. • Maharaja Sir
Mohan Shamsher Jang Bahadur Rana of
Nepal received the GCIE in 1945, promoted from a KCIE in 1924. •
Faisal bin Turki, Sultan of Muscat and Oman, received the GCIE in 1903. His son,
Taimur bin Faisal, received the KCIE in 1926 and his grandson,
Said bin Taimur, received the GCIE in 1945. •
Raja Sir Martanda Bhairava Tondaiman Bahadur,
Raja of Pudukkottai was appointed GCIE on 1 January 1913. •
William Robert Cornish, Surgeon-General—head of medical services—in the
Madras Presidency. • John Thomas Donovan, late of the Indian Civil Service was appointed CIE in 1931. •
Gopal Krishna Gokhale was made CIE. •
Rajandhari Sinha of Dharhara Estate was made the CIE in 1943. He was the Mayor of Patna, 1954-57. •
Khan Bahadur Maj.Gen. Fateh Naseeb Khan CIE, January 1931 (
Alwar State Forces) •
Sir C. P. Ramaswami Iyer, Law Member of India and Dewan of Travancore from 1936 to 1947 was appointed a CIE in 1923 and knighted with the KCIE in 1926. He was also a recipient of
KCSI. •
Francis Spring, the civil engineer, was made a KCIE. •
Leonard William Reynolds, the Agent to the Governor General was made a KCIE. •
Nawab Muhammad Ali Beg, Sir Afsar Ul Mulk, MVO (1906), CIE (1887), Commander in Chief of the Armed Forces of the Nizam of Hyderabad was promoted to the rank of KCIE by His Majesty King
Edward VII in the
1908 Birthday Honours •
H. V. Nanjundaiah acting dewan of mysore, Privy councillor to the Maharaja of Mysore and first Vice Chancellor of the
Mysore University was awarded the CIE in 1915 • Sardar Bahadur Sir Shamsher Singh Grewal KCIE, Diwan of Jind state during the reign of Raja-I-Rajgan Maharaja Raghbir Singh •
Waldemar Haffkine, developer of the first vaccines against cholera and bubonic plague, was knighted to the CIE in 1897. •
Major General J. G. Elliott, Military Secretary of the Defence Committee of the Indian Government on 1 December 1946. Was made C.I.E 1 January 1948. •
Maharaja Lakshmeshwar Singh, Maharaja of
Darbhanga. On 22 June 1897, he was advanced to the rank of Knight Grand Commander.
In fiction •
The Miracle of Purun Bhaghat, the second story in
The Second Jungle Book by
Rudyard Kipling, tells how "Sir Purun Dass, K.C.I.E.", "prime minister of one of the semi-independent native States in the north-western part of [British India]", one day retired from the mundane world and became a hermit in his native Himalayas, where after some time he saves a village from a rockslide and dies in the event. ==References==