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Date transcribed2011-08-00
Transcribed byPeter Bailey
CommentNote that notables of Indian, Afghan, etc. origin do not always follow the alphabetical name patterns established by Buckland in his original work.

Surname  Mudaliar    
First Name(s)  Pandi Runganada    
Birth Year  1847    
Death Year  1893    
Entry  Son of Subbaraya Mudaliar, who held the appointments of Manager of the Irrigation Department and Head Accountant of the Madras Railway, and was a fair English scholar : was educated at home until 1860, when he went to Pachaiyappa's school. In 1862 he joined the Presidency College. In mathematics, in English, in philosophy and in Tamil he surpassed all the other pupils. After passing his B.A. degree he was appointed Assistant Master in the Presidency College, and remained a Teacher or Professor till the end of his life. In 1872 he was appointed Fellow of the University. As Tamil Translator to Government, as Sheriff of Madras, and as a member of the Madras. Municipality he did good and useful work. He died Dec. 10, 1893. He was a particularly outspoken man, and never scrupled to point out his countrymen's defects.    
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