V. N. Viswanatha Rao Explained

Diwan Bahadur Raya Vallur Nott Viswanatha Rao 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. Book: Harrison . India Office List For 1933 . 1933.
2. Book: The Indian and Pakistan Year Book . 1933 . Bennett, Coleman & Company . en.
3. Book: Hardenberg, Wilko Graf von . The Nature State: Rethinking the History of Conservation . 2017-07-14 . Taylor & Francis . 978-1-351-76464-3 . en.
4. Book: Council, Madras (India : Presidency) Legislature Legislative . Proceedings of the Legislative Council of the Governor of Madras . 1934 . Superintendent, Government Press . en.
5. Web site: List Of Collector Tirunelveli District, Government of Tamil Nadu India . 2024-03-17 . en-US.
6. Web site: District Collectors Thanjavur District India . 2024-03-17 . en-US.
7. Book: Agriculture, Madras (Presidency) Department of . Report on the Operations of the Department . 1917 . Government Press. . en.
8. Web site: 2023-06-24 . The 'most enlightened Indian' and a polymath unrivalled - Press Institute . 2024-03-17 . pressinstitute.in . en-GB.
9. Book: Academy, Indian National Science . Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Indian National Science Academy . 1976 . en.
10. News: 2013-05-05 . The lawyer as a writer . 2024-03-17 . The Hindu . en-IN . 0971-751X.