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V. N. Viswanatha Rao
''Diwan Bahadur Raya'' Vallur Nott Viswanatha Rao was an Indian civil servant and statesman who served as Finance Secretary, Law Secretary, and Education Secretary of the Madras Presidency, as well as in the Legislative Council of Madras, and as Collector of Tinnevelly, and of Tanjore. His early days in civil service marked him as variously Statistical Assistant and then Personal Assistant to the Director of Agriculture, Madras Presidency. He was son-in-law to Sir C. V. Kumaraswami Sastri, brother to Madras judge V. N. Ramanatha Rao, nephew to C. V. Viswanatha Sastri and C. P. Ramaswami Iyer, and father to jurist, tehsildar In Bangladesh, India, and Pakistan, a tehsildar, talukdar, or mamlatdar is a land revenue officer accompanied by revenue inspectors. They are in charge of obtaining taxes from a tehsil with regard to land revenue. A tehsildar is also known as a ..., and historian V. N. Srinivasa Rao.{{Cite news , date=2013-05-05 , title=The lawyer as a writer , u ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Diwan Bahadur Secretary VN Viswanatha Rao
Diwan and divan are terms originally used in Persian, Arabic, and Turkish with derivatives in other Asian and European languages such as diwaan, dewan, etc. (see etymology sections at Divan, Diwan (poetry) and Dewan). These terms may refer to: Arts and entertainment *Diwan (poetry), a collection of Persian, Arabic, Turkish, or Urdu poetry ** ''Diwan'' (Nasir Khusraw) by Nasir Khusraw **''Diwan-e Shams-e Tabrizi'' by Rumi **'' West-östlicher Divan'' by Goethe *'' Diwân'', a 1998 album by Rachid Taha *'' Diwan 2'', a 2006 album by Rachid Taha * ''Diwan'' (film), a 2003 Indian Tamil-language film *Diwan, a character in the anime series ''Skyland'' * West-Eastern Divan Orchestra, a Middle Eastern music ensemble founded by Daniel Barenboim and Edward Said Buildings *Diwan-khane, guest house of the tribal chieftain in the tribal Middle Eastern, Arab, Persian, or Kurdish society *Divan (Mughal architecture), a type of audience hall in Bahmani and Mughal palaces *Diwaniya, a formal sitt ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Finance Secretary (India)
The Finance Secretary (ISO: ''Vitta Saciv'') is the administrative head of the Ministry of Finance. This post is held by senior IAS officer of the rank of Secretary to Government of India. Ajay Seth is the incumbent Finance Secretary. Under Section 22, of Reserve Bank of India Act, 1934, Finance Secretary signs the 1-rupee note. As a Secretary to Government of India, the Finance Secretary ranks 23rd on Indian Order of Precedence. Powers, responsibilities and postings Finance Secretary is the administrative head of the Ministry of Finance, and is the principal adviser to the Finance Minister on all matters of policy and administration within the Finance Ministry. The senior most Secretary among the five Secretaries of the five Departments of the Ministry of Finance, viz. Economic Affairs, Expenditure, Financial Services, Revenue and Investment & Public Assets Management of Ministry of Finance, is designated as Finance Secretary. The role of Finance Secretary is as foll ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Madras Presidency
The Madras Presidency or Madras Province, officially called the Presidency of Fort St. George until 1937, was an administrative subdivision (province) of British India and later the Dominion of India. At its greatest extent, the presidency included most of southern India, including all of present-day Andhra Pradesh, almost all of Tamil Nadu and parts of Kerala, Karnataka, Odisha and Telangana in the modern day. The city of Madras was the winter capital of the presidency and Ooty (Udagamandalam) was the summer capital. The Madras State was neighboured by the Kingdom of Mysore to the northwest, the Kingdom of Cochin and Kingdom of Travancore to the southwest, the Kingdom of Pudukkottai in the center, and the Hyderabad State to the north. Some parts of the presidency were also flanked by Bombay State ( Konkan Districts) and Central States (modern Madhya Pradesh). In 1639, the English East India Company purchased the village of Madraspatnam and one year later it establis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Legislative Council Of Madras
Tamil Nadu Legislative Council was the upper house of the former bicameral legislature of the Indian state of Tamil Nadu. It began its existence as Madras Legislative Council, the first provincial legislature for Madras Presidency. It was initially created as an advisory body in 1861, by the British colonial government. It was established by the Indian Councils Act 1861 ( 24 & 25 Vict. c. 67), enacted in the British parliament in the aftermath of the Indian Rebellion of 1857. Its role and strength were later expanded by the Indian Councils Act 1892 ( 55 & 56 Vict. c. 14). Limited election was introduced in 1909. The council became a unicameral legislative body in 1921 and eventually the upper chamber of a bicameral legislature in 1937. After India became independent in 1947, it continued to be the upper chamber of the legislature of Madras State, one of the successor states to the Madras Presidency. It was renamed as the Tamil Nadu Legislative Council when the state was renamed ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
