ii6 WHO'S WHO IN INDIA in which department he held non-gazetted appK)intments up to 1903, when he was promoted to Deputy Collectorship in recognition of the excellent services rendered by him as Personal Assistant to the Director of the said department. In 1903, he was awarded the Coronation certificate, and in 1 9 1 2 the Corona- tion Medal and the title of Khan Bahadur. Address: Personal Assistant to the Director of Land Records and Agriculture, Luckoow, U. P. V. D. Thandavaroya, Mudaliyar, Assistant Chief Medical Officer of H. H. The Nizam's Guaranteed State Rail- way, Secunderabad, Deccan, comes of a highly respected iamily of the Tamil community of Hindu Vellala. He was born in the year, 1866, in the North Arcot District, the original seat of his family and is the youngest of the six sons of his parents. He had his general education in the Triplicane High School and in the Presidency College, Madras, and his profes- sional training in the Madras Medical College. Immedi- ately after passing out from the Medical College he joined H. H. The Nizam's Guaranteed State Railway service as an Apothecary in 1888 and by dint of hard work and by single minded devotion to duty he has come to occupy the high position he now holds, being second only to the Chief Medical Officer of H. H. The Nizam's Guaranteed State Railway. He has been rendering gratuitous and useful services as Medical Superintendent of the Hindu Boys' Hostel attached to the Mahboob College at Secunderabad ever since it was established. When the fell disease, plague, broke out in all its terror in 191 1 in the Cities of Hyderabad and Secun- derabad he was able to persuade a large number of people to get inoculated and thus rendered good services in making inoculation popular. These services have been recognised by the Government and rewarded by the grant of the Kaisar-i-Hind medal recently. Address : Assistant Chief Medical Officer, H. H. The Nizam's Guaranteed State Railways, Secunderabad, Deccan.
