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INDIAN BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIONARY, 1915.

Raman.

Indian Science Congress held at Madras, 1915; Associated Member, American Physical Society. 1915; m. Sowbhagyavati Logasundram, d. of Mr. S. Krishnaswami Aiyer, late of Madura. Publications: about 30 original papers and contributions to Scientific journals, etc. Address: 210, Bowbazar Street, Calcutta, India.

Ramanuj Dayal, Hon’ble, Kai Bahadur (1910); belongs to Partherwala Vaish family of Meerut; Member, Legislative Council, U.P.; Honorary Magistrate; Member, District Board, Meerut; Honorary Secretary, Nanakchand Trust Committee: Member, Anglo Sanskrit School, and Vaish Orphanage; President. Hindu Kanya Pathasala, Meerut; Trustee, Central Hindu College, Benares; Managing Director, Beopur Sahaik Bank Ld.; owns an estate assessed at Rs. 15,000 per annum. Address: “Ramnivas”, Meerut City, Punjab, India.

Ramanna, A., Advocate, Mysore; b. 1868; enrolled as Advocate, Mysore Chief Court, 1880; Member, Mysore Representative Assembly; elected to the Mysore Legislative Council, 1909; nominated as member of the Economic Conference of Mysore; was a delegate to the Indian National Congress. 1906. Address: Mysore. India.

Raman Menon, K., B.A., B.L., Bar-at-Law, Chief Judge, Cochin, appointed, 1888. Address: Ernakulam, Cochin, State, S. India.

Raman Pillai, P. N., Madras; s. of Krishna Pillai; b. 1871; educ: Maharaja’s College, Trivandram, and Presidency College, Madras; joined the staff of the Madras Standard as Sub-Editor, 1894; became its Editor, 1908; severed connection, 1910; Member of several Public Associations. Recreations: Literature, Outdoor games and music. Address: 50, Gengoo Reddi Street, Egmore, Madras, India.

Ramanatha Ayyar, K. B., M.A., B.L., L.T., Professor. Pachaiyappa’s College, Madras; passed B.A., 1884: M.A., 1890; joined the staff of the Pachiappa’s College, 1891; passed L.T., 1892; B.L., 1895; is a social reformer; keenly interested in the cause of Education; Fellow, Madras University, 1904; Member, Madras Mahajana Sabha; Member Madras Provincial Congress Committee; Member, National Fund and Industrial Association, Madras. Address: Triplicane, Madras, India.

Ramanathan, Ponnambalam, C.M.G. (1889), K.C., Solicitor-General, Ceylon; b. Colombo, Ceylon, 1851; 2nd s. of A. Ponnambala Mudaliar of the Governor’s Gate; m. 1st, Selakshi, d. of E. Nannytami Mudaliar; 2nd, Lelavathi, authoress of Western Pictures for Eastern Students and editoress of her husband’s esoteric’s expositions of the Gospels of St. Mathew and St. John; educ: The Academy, Colombo; and the Presidency College, Madras; enrolled as Advocate, Supreme Court, Ceylon, 1873; unofficial Member, Legislative Council, Ceylon, 1879-92; called, honoris causa, to the Bar (Inner Temple), 1886; acted thrice as Attorney General, Ceylon, 1890, 1897, and 1898; retired, 1906; represented the Ceylon Government at the Diamond Jubilee of late Empress Victoria and was awarded Gold Medal, 1897. Publications: several volumes of Law Reports and

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