Gangadhar Rao Chitnavis

Sir Gangadhar Rao Chitnavis, KCIE (1862 [1] - ? ) was an Indian landholder and politician in the Central Provinces, British India.

Background and family

Chitnavis belonged to the prominent Chitnavis family of Nagpur, a Chandraseniya Kayastha Prabhu family that had followed the Bhonsla rulers from Berar to Nagpur in the middle of the eighteenth century. At Bhonsla court of Nagpur, Chitnavis had served as secretaries and ministers until the middle of the nineteenth century.[2]

He was son of Madhav Rao Chitnavis. His brother Shankar Madhav Chitnavis was a Statutory officer and worked a deputy commissioner of Central Province.[3]

Career

Chitnavis was president of the Nagpur Municipality. He was a appointed as a member of the Imperial Legislative Council in 1893 and represented the Landholders Constituency from the Central Provinces and Berar for several years.[4]

In 1902, he was chosen to represent the Central Provinces at the coronation in London of King Edward VII and Queen Alexandra.[5]

He was Governor-appointed President of First and Second Legislative Council of Central Provinces and Berar during 1921-23 and 1923-1926.[1] He was a member of the Indian National Congress.

Honours

Gangadhar Rao was awarded CIE by the British Government on 25 May 1895 [6] and later knighted as a KCIE[1] in a special honours list on 12 December 1911.[7]

References

  1. 1 2 3 Pateriya, Raghaw Raman (1991). Provincial legislatures and the national movement: a study in interaction in ... New Delhi: Northern Book Centre. p. 198. ISBN 81-85119-58-9.
  2. ↑ Philip F. McEldowney (1980). "CHAPTER III, The British Community and Its Interaction with Indians". Colonial Administration and Social Developments in middle India: The Central Provinces, 1861-1921 - Ph. D. Dissertation. University of Virginia. p. 84.
  3. ↑ Sir Andrew H. L. Fraser. Among Indian Rajahs and Ryots - A Civil Servant's Recollections ... p. 62.
  4. ↑ The Indian Biographical Dictionary. 1915.
  5. ↑ "The Coronation". The Times (36754). London. 29 April 1902. p. 10.
  6. ↑ The India List and India Office List. Retrieved 22 February 2010.
  7. ↑ London Gazette, 12 December 1911
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