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Gangadhara Rama Rao

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Gangadhara Rama Rao
Borncirca 1844 (1844)
Died22 July 1890 (aged 45–46)
NationalityIndian
Occupationpolitician
Years active1878–1881
Known formember, Madras Legislative Council
Notable workestablished Pithapuram Raja College (1884)

Gangadhara Rama Rao (c. 1844 – 22 July 1890) was an Indian politician and zamindar of Pittapore in the Madras Presidency who served as a member of the Madras Legislative Council from 1878 to 1881.

Gangadhara Rama Rao ascended the throne of Pittapore or Pithapuram in 1877. He established the Pithapuram Raja College in 1884.

References

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  • Sir Robert Lethbridge (1900). The golden book of India: a genealogical and biographical dictionary of the ruling princes, chiefs, nobles, and other personages, titled or decorated, of the Indian empire, with an appendix for Ceylon. S. Low, Marston & Co. pp. 51.
  • Pithapuram