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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  Runga    
First Name(s)  Charlu Cettipaniam Viravalli    
Birth Year  1831    
Death Year  1883    
Entry  Born 1831 : son of a clerk in the Chingleput District (Madras) : educated at Pachaiyappa's School and the High School, Madras : served in the Chingleput, Salem and Nellore Districts : in 1859 was appointed Special Assistant to the Inam Commission, and, when that work came to an end, was entrusted with the special duty of reporting on the working of Indian Railways : became Treasury Deputy Collector at Calicut (1864), and in 1868 was appointed Comptroller of the Mysore Palace : in 1874 he published a pamphlet on The British Administration of Mysore : became Revenue Secretary to the Chief Commissioner of Mysore: C.I.E. in 1880 :in 1881 was appointed Diwan of Mysore. The reorganization of the Judicial and Forest Departments, the introduction of Railways, the reduction of the State debt, and the organization of the Representative Assembly of notables occupied his attention, but he did not live long enough to see his reforms completed, He died in 1883.    
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