The Tanjore Row, or Thanjavur Rao family, also known as the Reddy Royars, was a
Tamil-Marathi
Marathi may refer to:
*Marathi people, an Indo-Aryan ethnolinguistic group of Maharashtra, India
*Marathi language, the Indo-Aryan language spoken by the Marathi people
*Palaiosouda, also known as Marathi, a small island in Greece
See also
*
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Deshastha Brahmin
Deshastha Brahmin is a Hindu Brahmin subcaste mainly from the Indian state of Maharashtra and northern area of the state of Karnataka. Other than these states, according to authors K. S. Singh, Gregory Naik and Pran Nath Chopra, Deshastha Br ...
clan from
Tanjore
Thanjavur (), also Tanjore, Pletcher 2010, p. 195 is a city in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu. Thanjavur is the 11th biggest city in Tamil Nadu. Thanjavur is an important center of South Indian religion, art, and architecture. Most of the Gr ...
who distinguished themselves in civil administration in the nineteenth century and thereafter. Originally migrant to Tamil lands in the train of
Vyankoji Bhosale, Maratha general and half-brother to
Shivaji
Shivaji Bhonsale I (; 19 February 1630 – 3 April 1680), also referred to as Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj, was an Indian ruler and a member of the Bhonsle Maratha clan. Shivaji carved out his own independent kingdom from the declining Adils ...
, they established themselves in the resulting small
Thanjavur Maratha kingdom
The Thanjavur Maratha kingdom ruled by the Bhonsle dynasty was a principality of Tamil Nadu between the 17th and 19th centuries. Their native language was Marathi. Venkoji was the founder of the dynasty.
Maratha conquest of Thanjavur
Follo ...
in a civil capacity, extending their civil service to the
British after
Serfoji II
Serfoji II Bhonsle ( ta,
இரண்டாம் சரபோஜி ராஜா போன்ஸ்லே, mr, शरभोजी राजे भोसले (द्वितीय)) (24 September 1777 – 7 March 1832) also spelt as Sarabho ...
yielded the management of his realms,
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Dewans
''Dewan'' (also known as ''diwan'', sometimes spelled ''devan'' or ''divan'') designated a powerful government official, minister, or ruler. A ''dewan'' was the head of a state institution of the same name (see Divan). Diwans belonged to the el ...
of
Travancore
The Kingdom of Travancore ( /ˈtrævənkɔːr/), also known as the Kingdom of Thiruvithamkoor, was an Indian kingdom from c. 1729 until 1949. It was ruled by the Travancore Royal Family from Padmanabhapuram, and later Thiruvananthapuram. At ...
(four members),
Indore
Indore () is the largest and most populous Cities in India, city in the Indian state of Madhya Pradesh. It serves as the headquarters of both Indore District and Indore Division. It is also considered as an education hub of the state and is t ...
(two members),
Hyderabad & Berar,
Baroda
Vadodara (), also known as Baroda, is the second largest city in the Indian state of Gujarat. It serves as the administrative headquarters of the Vadodara district and is situated on the banks of the Vishwamitri River, from the state capital ...
, and
Mysore
Mysore (), officially Mysuru (), is a city in the southern part of the state of Karnataka, India. Mysore city is geographically located between 12° 18′ 26″ north latitude and 76° 38′ 59″ east longitude. It is located at an altitude of ...
.
Gallery
File:R. Raghunatha Rao.jpg, ''Rai'' Raghunatha Rao
File:Tanjore Madhava Rao 1880.jpg, ''Raja'' Sir T. Madhava Rao,
File:Tanjore Ananda Rao, Diwan of Mysore.jpg, Sir T. Ananda Rao
File:T. Rama Rao.jpg, T. Rama Rao
File:R. Venkata Rao.jpg, ''Rai Raya'' ''Rai'' Venkata Rao
File:T Sambamurthi Rao edited.webp, ''Rao Saheb'' T. Sambamurthi Rao
Members
* ''Diwan Bahadur''
''Rai'' Raghunatha Rao - Diwan of Indore
* ''Rai Raya Rai''
T. Venkata Rao
Rai Raya Rai Venkata Rao (born T. Venkata Rao, also spelt Venkatta Row; died 1843), was an Indian administrator and statesman who served as Diwan of Travancore 18211829 and 183839. He was the father of R. Raghunatha Rao, brother of R. Ranga Ra ...
- Diwan of Travancore, of Hyderabad & Berar
* ''Rai''
T. Ranga Rao
T is the twentieth letter of the Latin alphabet. (For the same letterform in the Cyrillic and Greek alphabets, see Te and Tau respectively).
T may also refer to:
Codes and units
* T, Tera- as in one trillion
* T, the symbol for "True" in lo ...
- Diwan of Travancore
* ''Raja'' Sir
T. Madhava Rao
Raja Sir Tanjore Madhava Rao, KCSI (20 November 18284 April 1891), also known as Sir Madhava Rao Thanjavurkar or simply as Madhavarao Tanjorkar, was an Indian statesman, civil servant, administrator and politician who served as the Diwan of ...
- Diwan of Travancore, of Indore, and of Baroda
* Sir
T. Ananda Rao
Sir Tanjore Ananda Rao (alternatively known as Ananda Rao Thanjavarkar) (15 May 1852 – 19 July 1919) was an Indian administrator and statesman who served as the 18th Diwan of Mysore from 1909 to 1912. He was the eldest son of Sir T. Madhava R ...
- Diwan of Mysore
*
T. Rama Rao
Tatineni Rama Rao (1938 – 20 April 2022) was an Indian filmmaker. He directed 75 Hindi and Telugu language, Telugu feature films between 1966 and 2000.
Career
Rao started his work in the film industry in the late 1950s as the assistant direc ...
- Diwan of Travancore
* ''Rao Saheb Udarasiromani'' T. Padmanabha Rao
* ''Rao Saheb'' T. Sambamurthi Rao
Sources
South Asian clans
Thanjavur Maratha kingdom