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V. N. Viswanatha Rao

Diwan Bahadur Secretary VN Viswanatha Rao

Diwan Bahadur Raya Vallur Nott Viswanatha Rao CIE was an Indian civil servant and statesman who served as Finance Secretary, Law Secretary,[1] and Education Secretary[2] of the Madras Presidency,[3] as well as in the Legislative Council of Madras,[4] and as Collector of Tinnevelly,[5] and of Tanjore.[6]

His early days in civil service marked him as variously Statistical Assistant and then Personal Assistant to the Director of Agriculture, Madras Presidency.[7]

He was son-in-law to Sir C. V. Kumaraswami Sastri,[8] brother to Madras judge V. N. Ramanatha Rao,[9] nephew to C. V. Viswanatha Sastri and C. P. Ramaswami Iyer, and father to jurist, tehsildar, and historian V. N. Srinivasa Rao.[10]

References

  1. ^ Harrison (1933). India Office List For 1933.
  2. ^ The Indian and Pakistan Year Book. Bennett, Coleman & Company. 1933.
  3. ^ Hardenberg, Wilko Graf von (14 July 2017). The Nature State: Rethinking the History of Conservation. Taylor & Francis. ISBN 978-1-351-76464-3.
  4. ^ Council, Madras (India : Presidency) Legislature Legislative (1934). Proceedings of the Legislative Council of the Governor of Madras. Superintendent, Government Press.
  5. ^ "List Of Collector | Tirunelveli District, Government of Tamil Nadu | India". Retrieved 17 March 2024.
  6. ^ "District Collectors | Thanjavur District | India". Retrieved 17 March 2024.
  7. ^ Agriculture, Madras (Presidency) Department of (1917). Report on the Operations of the Department. Government Press.
  8. ^ "The 'most enlightened Indian' and a polymath unrivalled - Press Institute". pressinstitute.in. 24 June 2023. Retrieved 17 March 2024.
  9. ^ Academy, Indian National Science (1976). Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Indian National Science Academy.
  10. ^ "The lawyer as a writer". The Hindu. 5 May 2013. ISSN 0971-751X. Retrieved 17 March 2024.