Diwan Bahadur Conjeevaram Thiruvenkata Mudaliar | |
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Chief Commissioner of Coorg Province | |
In office March 1949 –1950 | |
Preceded by | Ketoli Chengappa |
Succeeded by | Daya Singh Bedi |
Personal details | |
Born | 1901 or 1902 Conjeevaram, Madras Presidency, British India |
Spouse | Yeshodha |
Alma mater | University of Madras |
Profession | botanist,civil servant |
Diwan Bahadur Conjeevaram 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.
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
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