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{{Short description|Bihari zamindar, politician and music patron}}
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[[The Honourable|The Hon'ble]] '''Chandipat Sahay''' {{Post-nominals|list=[[State legislative councils of India#Member of the Legislative Council|MLC]]}} was a [[Zamindars of Bihar|principal zamindar]] and ruler of the Patna zamindari estate, primarily governing the district of [[Patna district|Patna]].<ref>{{cite web | url=https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.35869/page/n241/mode/2up?view=theater | title=Thacker's Indian Dictionary 1929 | date=1929 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web | url=https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.101704/page/n1425/mode/2up?view=theater | title=Thacker's Indian Dictionary 1928 | date=1928 }}</ref> He also served a term as a Member of Legislative Council in the [[Legislatures of British India|Legislative Council of the Governor of Bihar and Orissa]], representing the [[Patna Division]] Landholders' Constituency, where he was appointed to the Panel of chairmen.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.77325/page/n97/mode/2up?view=theater | title=The Combined Civil List for India 1926 | date=1926 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web | url=https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.852/page/n133/mode/2up?view=theater | title=The Indian Year Book 1924 | date=1924 }}</ref><ref name="jstor">{{cite web | url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/saoa.crl.34648213 | jstor=saoa.crl.34648213 | title=Bihar and Orissa Legislative Council debates: Official report (Vol. 9, Issue 1) | last1=Legislative Council | first1=Bihar Orissa (India). Legislature | date=1924 | volume=9 | issue=1 | publisher=Government Printing }}</ref><ref>http://archives.biharvidhanmandal.in/jspui/bitstream/123456789/4683/1/Appointment%20of%20a%20panel%20of%20chairmen%20%2019th%20August%2C%201924.pdf{{Dead link | date=August 2025 | fix-attempted=yes}}</ref>

==Politics==

He was appointed to the Legislative Council of the Governor of Bihar and Orissa by [[Sir Henry Wheeler]] in 1923.<ref name="jstor" /><ref>{{cite web | url=https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.45421/page/n599/mode/2up?view=theater | title=The Indian Quarterly Register Vol 1. (1924) | date=1924 }}</ref> He was also a member of the Licensing Board of Patna.<ref>{{Cite web| title=The legislative council of the governor of Bihar and Orissa | url=http://archives.biharvidhanmandal.in/jspui/bitstream/123456789/6058/1/Resolution%20%E2%80%93%20Prohibition%20of%20the%20sale%2c%20manufacture%20and%20consumption%20of%20intoxicants%20except%20for%20medicinal%20purposes%20%E2%80%93%2017th%20February%2c%201925.pdf#page=17 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240706154415/http://archives.biharvidhanmandal.in/jspui/bitstream/123456789/6058/1/Resolution%20%E2%80%93%20Prohibition%20of%20the%20sale,%20manufacture%20and%20consumption%20of%20intoxicants%20except%20for%20medicinal%20purposes%20%E2%80%93%2017th%20February,%201925.pdf | archive-date=2024-07-06}}</ref>

Drawing from his own experiences as a [[zamindar]], he was responsible for the abolition of chaukidari tax in [[Bihar and Orissa Province]].<ref>{{cite web | url=https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.206692/page/n355/mode/2up?view=theater | title=The Indian Quarterly Register Vol-i(jan-jun-1926) | date=1926 }}</ref><ref>http://archives.biharvidhanmandal.in/jspui/bitstream/123456789/6520/1/Resolutions-Abolition%20of%20chaukidari%20tax%20and%20appointment%20of%20addittional%20dafadars%20%2017th%20February%2c%201926.pdf{{Dead link | date=August 2025 | fix-attempted=yes}}</ref> In 1931, he was invited by [[Syed Mohammad Fakhruddin|Sir Mohammad Fakhruddin]], [[Rajendra Prasad]], [[Sachchidananda Sinha]], and Syed Abdul Aziz to assist in preventing Hindu-Muslim riots in Bihar.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.97837/page/n187/mode/2up?view=theater | title=History of the Freedom Movement in Bihar,vol.2(1928-1941) | date=1957 }}</ref>

==Music patronage==

He was a patron of [[Hindustani classical music]], and hosted some of the greatest classical musicians at his [[Estate (land)|estate]] in [[Patna]]. [[Pandit Vishnu Digambar Paluskar]] performed there for two consecutive days, whereas other performers included [[Ahmed Jan Thirakwa]] and Maharajji Berve.<ref name="timesarticle">{{cite news |last=Dasgupta |first=Shweta |date= 4 February 1996|title= Once, once upon a musical time...|work=The Sunday Times of India |location=Patna}}</ref>

In 1931, he founded Sangeet Sadan along with Hari Narayan Kapoor, the only music school in Patna at the time, in his estate's palace.
Since music was taboo at the time, he established the school to educate the people about its nuances and remove the stigma associated with music. The first five students of the school came from the [[Sahay family]] itself. His son, Jwalapati Sahay, a zamindar, emerged as one of the best [[Khayal]] singers of his time.<ref name="timesarticle" /><ref name="book1">{{cite book |last=Bhakth |first=Narayan |date= 9 January 2015 |title=हमारे संगीतकार ,नर्तक, गायक एवं वादक |trans-title=Hamare Sangeetkar, Nartak, Gayak Evam Vadak |pages=129–131 |language=Hindi |location= India|publisher= V&S Publishers|isbn=9789352150854}}</ref><br>The school was also supported by his peers, including [[Sir Sultan Ahmed]], [[Sir Ganesh Dutt]], Rajandhari Sinha, [[Anees Fatima|Lady Imam]], [[Madhav Shrihari Aney]], [[Raja]] Rajiv Ranjan Prasad Sinha, [[Fazl Ali|Sir Fazl Ali]] and [[Sachchidananda Sinha]], among others.<ref name="book1" /><ref>{{Google books|Tq3hqRz171YC|The Bihar Theatre}}</ref>

==See also==

*[[Zamindars of Bihar]]
*[[Bihar and Orissa Province]]
*[[Bihar Legislative Council]] 
*[[Hindustani classical music]]

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