V. N. 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]
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- ^ Council, Madras (India : Presidency) Legislature Legislative (1934). Proceedings of the Legislative Council of the Governor of Madras. Superintendent, Government Press.
- ^ "List Of Collector | Tirunelveli District, Government of Tamil Nadu | India". Retrieved 2024-03-17.
- ^ "District Collectors | Thanjavur District | India". Retrieved 2024-03-17.
- ^ Agriculture, Madras (Presidency) Department of (1917). Report on the Operations of the Department. Government Press.
- ^ "The 'most enlightened Indian' and a polymath unrivalled - Press Institute". pressinstitute.in. 2023-06-24. Retrieved 2024-03-17.
- ^ Academy, Indian National Science (1976). Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Indian National Science Academy.
- ^ "The lawyer as a writer". The Hindu. 2013-05-05. ISSN 0971-751X. Retrieved 2024-03-17.