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The legendary
Everest mountaineer, surgeon, painter and medical missionary Dr. Howard Somervell OBE, FRCS working then for LMS has this to say about his visit to this hospital "The first...hospital we visit is Nedungolam, the hospital which was entirely built by one family, the Rama Rao Brahmin family whose present head, Rao Sahib Padmanabha Rao, lends me a small house at Nedungolam whilst I am working at this hospital. The way in which (his) family have built this hospital and take an interest in it is a very exceptional and worthy thing — I wish it were more usual. A few years ago a nice little operating-room was put up at Nedungolam so now we can do anything there which doesn't require very special or prolonged treatment". Over the last 123 years this hospital has grown into a major establishment and is presently run by the Health and Family Welfare Dept of the Govt of Kerala who have renamed it as "Rama Rao Memorial Taluk Hospital"
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of discussing with and taking the opinion of responsible officers associated with him in matters of legislation which as being one of the most important functions of
Government, should receive most careful consideration before being submitted to the Sovereign to be passed into law". The Council met for the first time on 23 August 1888 in the Diwan's chambers and Travancore Kingdom became the first among Indian Princely States to have a legislative body and recognize the value of such an institution. Over the years the Council grew into the 140 member Legislative Assembly of Kerala State, Republic of India. Rama Rao thus had the honour of sowing the seed of legislative governance for the first time (in any Princely State) in India, the largest Democracy in the world.
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Eminent Order of the Indian Empire, To. T. Rama Row, Diwan of the
Travancore State, Greeting; Whereas We have thought fit to nominate and appoint you to be a companion of Our said Most Eminent Order of the Indian Empire, We do by these Presents grant unto you the dignity of a Companion of Our said Order and hereby authorise you to have , hold and enjoy the said dignity and rank as a Companion of Our aforesaid Order, together with all the singular privileges thereunto belonging or appertaining ......Given at Our Court at Osborne under Our Sign Manual and the seal of Our said Order , this first day of January 1891 in the fifty-fourth year of Our reign. By Sovereign's command."
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Rama Rao's private charities were varied and many. He built a hospital from his own private sources to serve the poor and most depressed class of the population of the rural community at
Nedungolam near present-day Kollam on 4 December 1894 and requested the London Mission Society (LMS) to manage it.
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Rama Rao served as Deputy
Peishkar of Quilon division from 1862 to 1878 and Kottayam division from 1878 to 1887, when he was appointed Diwan of Travancore. Based on his recommendations, Maharaja Moolam Thirunal issued a regulation on 30 March 1888 to set up a Legislative Council "to have the benefit
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Rama Rao was known for his honesty and integrity even from early days in service. The esteem with which the
British treated him was epitomised when Lord Connemara (Robert Bourke, the 1st Baron Connemara) the then Governor of Madras called on him at his private residence "Hill-View" during his visit
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In 1891 Rama Rao was created a
Companion of the Indian Empire by Victoria, Queen of the United Kingdom and Empress of India and the citation reads "Victoria, by the Grace of God of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, Queen, Defender of Faith, Empress of India and Sovereign of the Most
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page 445 of 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, by Sir Roper
Lethbridge, K.C.I.E. published by Macmillan and Co,
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from Rama Rao's recommendation to the
Maharaja, as quoted by S. Ramanath Aiyar F.S.Sc (Lond.) in his book "Diwan T. Rama Row" (page 46), The Sree Moolam Ministers Series, printed at Anantha Rama Varma Press Trivandrum,
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S. Ramanath Aiyar F.S.Sc (Lond.) in his book "Diwan T. Rama Row" (page 130), The Sree Moolam
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S. Ramanath Aiyar F.S.Sc (Lond.) in his book "Diwan T. Rama Row" (page 122), The Sree Moolam Ministers Series, printed at Anantha Rama Varma Press Trivandrum, 1926
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S. Ramanath Aiyar F.S.Sc (Lond.) in his book "Diwan T. Rama Row" (page 45), The Sree Moolam Ministers Series, printed at Anantha Rama Varma Press Trivandrum, 1926
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