Cursetji : private secretary of Nawab Salimullah of Dacca. He was involved in the Comilla incident of 1907. The ICS (British India) Officers List mentions a Rustomji Cursetjee as having passed the ICS exam in 1874 & joined the ICS in 1876; his last postings were as Judge in the province of Agra & Oudh, & thereafter in United Provinces.

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Bande Mataram > The Comilla Incident

... record until the next evening when "the Nawab's Secretary, a Parsi, was attacked while walking alone and severely beaten with lathis by some Hindus." The provocation alleged to have been given by Mr. Cursetji is carefully omitted, and we are asked to believe that an inoffensive Parsi gentleman out for an innocent and healthful evening walk was waylaid, when alone, and severely beaten because he happened... evening and the morning were the second day. On the third all was again quiet till that dangerous time, the evening, when an "unlicensed Mahomedan procession", greatly daring, took the air like Mr. Cursetji before them, apparently with the innocuous object of relieving their feelings and exercising their lungs shouting Allah-ho-Akbar. This explains a great deal; evidently the bands of hooligans ranging... are ourselves "struck" by the mildness of the methods employed by these Page 215 rioters; they do not break into houses, they merely "enter" them; they do not severely beat anyone as Mr. Cursetji was "severely beaten" by the Hindus; they merely "strike" a man or two in playful sort. Under the circumstances it is surely the leaders of the Hindu community who should have been enlisted "to keep ...