Rao Bahadur Chinnakavanam Tadulinga Mudaliar or C. Tadulingam (1878–1954) was an Indian botanist known for his book ''A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses'' which he penned along with

K. Rangachari Diwan Bahadur Kadambi Rangachari (September 1868– 10 May 1934) was an Indian botanist and ethnologist. He was an editor for the seven-volume work on south Indian ethnography along with Edgar Thurston. He also taught botany at the agricultural ...

. The book is considered to be the first on the subject and won Mudaliar considerable acclaim. Mudaliar served as

mayor In many countries, a mayor is the highest-ranking official in a municipal government such as that of a city or a town. Worldwide, there is a wide variance in local laws and customs regarding the powers and responsibilities of a mayor as well a ...

Madras Chennai (, ), formerly known as Madras ( the official name until 1996), is the capital city of Tamil Nadu, the southernmost Indian state. The largest city of the state in area and population, Chennai is located on the Coromandel Coast of th ...

in 1942-43.

Personal life

Born in

Madras Presidency The Madras Presidency, or the Presidency of Fort St. George, also known as Madras Province, was an administrative subdivision (presidency) of British India. At its greatest extent, the presidency included most of southern India, including the ...

, in 1878, Mudaliar graduated from the Agricultural College, Coimbatore, in which he served as a principal in his later years. Mudaliar wrote ''A Handbook on Some South Indian Grasses'' in 1921 along with K. Rangachari of the Government Museum, Chennai and won instant acclaim. He was elected

Fellow of the Linnean Society The Linnean Society of London is a learned society dedicated to the study and dissemination of information concerning natural history, evolution, and taxonomy. It possesses several important biological specimen, manuscript and literature colle ...

and the "Rao Bahadur" title was conferred upon him.

Politics

Mudaliar succeeded V. Chakkarai Chettiar as mayor of Madras city in 1942. He served till 1943 and was succeeded by Syed Niamatullah.

Death

Mudaliar died in 1954 at the age of seventy-five.

Notes

External links

Tadulingam, C.; G. Venkatanarayana (1932) A Handbook of Some South Indian Weeds. Madras: Government Press.

A handbook of some south Indian grasses (1921)
{{DEFAULTSORT:Mudaliar, C Tadulinga 1878 births 1954 deaths Mayors of Chennai 19th-century Indian botanists Fellows of the Linnean Society of London 20th-century Indian botanists Scientists from Chennai Botanists from British India