Diwan Bahadur Seth Kasturchand Daga is the leading banker of Nagpur. His family are Mahesri Banias of Marwar and his father Bansi Lal Abirchand, b whose name the firm is still known, rendered valuable services to the British Government during the Mutiny, for which he received the title of Rai Bahadur and a gold armlet. Seth Kastruchand owns 17 villages, a cotton mill and several gins and presses and has an extensive banking business with agents in a number of large towns. His firm do not as a rule lend money to agriculturists or try to acquire land, but confine themselves to exchange banking and also act as Government Treasurers in several Districts. Seth Kastrurchand has given large donations to public institutions like the Duffer in Hospital, the Victoria Institute and the Bansi Lal dispensary, and rendered great assistance to the Bikaner State, in which his home is situate, during the famine of 1900. He has been made successively Rai Bahadur and Diwan Bahadur, while his son, Biseshwar Das, is a Rai Bahadur.