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{{Infobox Officeholder
| honorific-prefix = [[Diwan Bahadur]]
| name = Rishiyur Venkata Srinivasa Aiyar
| honorific-suffix = [[Order of the Indian Empire|CIE]]
| image =
| imagesize =
| order = Member of [[Madras Legislative Council]]
| term_start1 = 1902-1909
| term_end1 =
| governor1 = [[Oliver Russell, 2nd Baron Ampthill]]
| monarch1 =
| primeminister1 =
| predecessor1 =
| successor1 =
| birth_date = 1852
| birth_place = [[Vaiyacalathore]], [[Madras Presidency]]
| death_date = 1909
| death_place = [[Madras]]
| nationality =
| party = [[Indian National Congress]]
| alma_mater = [[Government Arts College, Kumbakonam]]
| profession = [[Civil servant]]
| occupation = [[Legislator]], [[mathematician]]
| spouse =
}}

[[Diwan Bahadur]]<ref name="annualindex">{{cite book | title=The Annual Index to the Times| year=1907| pages=637| publisher=University of Michigan}}</ref> '''Rishiyur Venkata Srinivasa Aiyar''' {{post-nominals|country=GBR|CIE}} (1852 – 31 March 1909) was an [[India]]n [[civil servant]], [[legislator]] and [[politician]] from the [[Madras Presidency]].

== Early life and education ==
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Srinivasa Aiyar was born to R. S. Venkatarama Aiyar <ref name=Felton>{{cite book|last=Felton|first=Monica|title=A child widow's story|year=2003|publisher=Katha|location=New Delhi|isbn=978-81-87649-91-5}}</ref> and his wife, Valambal, in his maternal grandfather's house at Vaiyacalathore in 1852. He was the eldest of their four children. Srinivasa Aiyar had his schooling in [[Needamangalam]] and graduated from [[Government Arts College, Kumbakonam]] in 1870.

== Educational career ==

On completion of his studies, Srinivasa Aiyar worked as Assistant master at Wesleyan High School, [[Bangalore]] for three years and as Assistant Lecturer in Government Arts College, Kumbakonam from 1873 to 1884.

== Provincial Civil Service ==

In 1884, he joined the Provincial civil service of Madras as an assistant in the Revenue Settlement Department.<ref name="indiaofficelistp618">[[#India Office List 1905|India Office List 1905]], Pg 618</ref> He rose to become Secretary to the Commissioner of Revenue Settlement and was, in July 1896, appointed as the Director of the Department of Land Records and Agriculture in the [[Madras Presidency]].<ref name="indiaofficelistp618" /> He became the Inspector General of Registration in December 1903<ref name="srinivasa_raghavaiyangar">{{cite book | title=About Bygone Cherished Days: Life, Times, and Work of Dewan Bahadur S. Srinivasa Raghavaiyangar, C.I.E., and Other Distinguished Personalities| last=Raghavan| first=K. Ranga|author2=Seshayangar Srinivasa Raghavaiyangar | year=1993| publisher=Pankajam R. Raghavan}}</ref><ref name="indiaofficelistp88">[[#India Office List 1905|India Office List 1905]], Pg 88</ref> and was nominated to the [[Madras Legislative Council]] in November 1902 and for a second term on 30 October 1903.<ref name="hazell">{{cite book | title=Hazell's Annual| year=1909| pages=59| publisher=Hazell, Watson and Viney}}</ref><ref name="indiaofficelistp75">[[#India Office List 1905|India Office List 1905]], Pg 75</ref>

== Proficiency in mathematics ==

Aiyar was renowned for his proficiency in mathematics<ref name="biographies">{{cite book | title=Biographical Vistas: Sketches of Some Eminent Indians| last=Ramaswami Aiyar| first=Chetpat Pattabhirama| year=1968| pages=224| publisher=Asia Pub. House}}</ref> and was called "Euclid" or "Geometry" Srinivasa Aiyar.<ref name="bhavansjournal">{{cite book | title=Bhavan's Journal| year=1967| pages=51| publisher=Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan}}</ref><ref name="sivaswami">{{cite book | title=P. S. Sivaswami Aiyer| last=Chandrasekharan| first=K.| year=1969| pages=12| publisher=Publications Division, Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, Govt. of India}}</ref>

== Indian National Congress ==

Aiyar was also associated with the [[Indian National Congress]] in its early days.<ref name="congress_encyclopaedia">{{cite book | title=The Encyclopaedia of Indian National Congress| last=Moin Zaidi| first=A.|author2=Shaheda Gufran Zaidi | year=1976| pages=275| publisher=S. Chand}}</ref>

== Death ==

Srinivasa Aiyar died on 31 March 1909 at the age of 57.{{fact|date=August 2020}}

== Family ==

In 1868, Srinivasa Aiyar married Meenambal (1858-1950), the elder sister of [[Sir T. Sadasiva Iyer]]. The couple had three sons and three daughters.{{fact|date=August 2020}}

He was the paternal uncle of [[R. S. Subbalakshmi]], a [[social reformer]] and [[educationist]].<ref name="Malathi Ramanathan">{{cite book|last=Ramanathan|first=Malathi|title=Sister R.S. Subbalakshmi: social reformer and educationist|year=1989|publisher=Lok Vangmaya Griha|pages=13}}</ref>

== Notes ==
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== References ==

* {{cite book | title=The India List and India Office List| last=Great Britain India Office| year=1905| publisher=Harrison and Sons| location=London|ref=India Office List 1905}}
* [https://archive.is/20130115235423/http://www.start.ca/users/rishiyur/VD/Rishiyur_Group.html]

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