C. T. Mudaliar Explained

Honorific-Prefix:Diwan Bahadur
Kanchipuram Thiruvenkata Mudaliar
Office1:Chief Commissioner of Coorg Province
Term Start1:March 1949
Term End1:1950
Predecessor1:Ketoli Chengappa
Successor1:Daya Singh Bedi
Birth Date:1901 or 1902
Birth Place:Kanchipuram,
Madras Presidency,
British India
Alma Mater:University of Madras
Profession:botanist, civil servant
Spouse:Yeshodha

Diwan Bahadur Kanchipuram Thiruvenkata Mudaliar (born 1901 or 1902) was an Indian botanist and civil servant who served as Chief Commissioner of Coorg Province from 1949 to 1950. He was the second Indian to hold the post after Ketoli Chengappa and the last before Coorg was inducted as a Part-C state of the Indian Union.

Personal life

Mudaliar was born to C. Ramanuja Mudaliar in the town of Conjeevaram (now Kanchipuram) in about 1901 or 1902. He married Tilakavathi daughter of Judge C. Jambulinga mudaliar. The couple had two sons, C. T. Gopalakrishnan and C. T. Radhakrishnan and a daughter, Rama Bai Jagadesan.

Later he married Radha Bai (off sister of Tilakavathi) and the couple had a daughter Devi Choudrani Varadarajan

As Chief Commissioner of Coorg

Mudaliar became Chief Commissioner of Coorg in March 1949. During his tenure, Mudaliar inaugurated Coorg's first arts and science college at Mercara.

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