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{{Infobox Officeholder
| honorific-prefix = Sir
| name = Tanjore Ananda Rao
| honorific-suffix = [[Order of the Indian Empire|CIE]]
| image = T. Ananda Rao.jpg
| imagesize = 200px
| caption = Portrait of Tanjore Ananda Rao
| order1 = 18th [[List of Diwans of Mysore | Diwan of the Mysore kingdom]]
| term_start1 = 1 April 1909
| term_end1 = 10 November 1912
| predecessor1 = [[V. P. Madhava Rao]]
| successor1 = [[M. Visvesvaraya]]
| monarch1 = [[Krishna Raja Wadiyar IV]]
| birth_date = 15 May 1852
| birth_place = Trivandrum
| death_date = July 1919
| death_place =
| nationality =
| party =
| alma_mater = [[Presidency College, Chennai]]
| profession = Civil servant
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'''Tanjore Ananda Rao''' {{post-nominals|country=GBR|CIE}} (alternatively known as '''Ananda Rao Thanjavarkar''') (15 May 1852 – 19 July 1919) was an Indian administrator and statesman who served as the [[List of Diwans of Mysore|Diwan]] of the [[Mysore kingdom]] from 1909 to 1912. He was the eldest son of [[Sir T. Madhava Rao]].

== Early life and education ==

Ananda Rao was born on 15 May 1852 at Padma Vilas, [[Trivandrum]] Fort, to prominent Indian statesman [[Sir T. Madhava Rao]] who was known for his work as the Diwan of Travancore and Baroda and as one of the early pioneers of the [[Indian National Congress]]. The Rao family belonged to a [[Thanjavur]] [[Marathi language|Marathi]]-speaking [[Deshastha Brahmin]] community of [[Thanjavur district]].

Rao had his schooling in [[Madras]] and completed his matriculation in first class in 1867 and his F. A. in first class in 1869. He completed his B. A. (History) in first class from the [[Presidency College, Madras]] and in logic and psychology from the [[Maharaja's College, Thiruvananthapuram]]

== Career==

Rao was initially employed as a tutor to Tukaji Rao Holkar of Baroda before joining as an [[attache]] to the Mysore Commission on 14 November 1873. Rao was appointed Assistant Commissioner of [[Bangalore]] on 7 July 1876 and was in charge of palace accounts from 1 December 1879 to January 1883.

Rao served as the Assistant Commissioner for [[Hassan, Karnataka|Hassan]] and [[Kaduru]] from 1883 to 1886 and Acting Deputy Commissioner of Hassan and Mysore from 1886 to 1889. He served as the Chief Secretary to the Diwan of Mysore from 1889 to 1897 and Director of Agricultural and other statistics from 1897 to 1904. Rao was appointed Revenue Commissioner on 14 March 1904 and served in the Mysore Legislative Council from 14 March 1906 till taking over as Diwan on 1 April 1909.

== Diwan of Mysore ==
Rao served as the Diwan of Mysore from 1 April 1909 till 10 November 1912. During his tenure, a lot of measures were taken for the economic development of Mysore. A reservoir was constructed in 1910 for the power station at Shivanasamudra. In the same year, the Mysore-Hassan railway line was extended linking [[Saligrama, Mysore|Saligrama]] and Yedatur with the line at Arsikere. The 1st Mysore Economic Conference was inaugurated on 10 June 1910 and met once every year. In 1911-1912, the construction of the Krishnarajasagara Dam across the [[Kaveri]] at [[Kannambadi]] was commenced.

It was Diwan T Anand Rao who invited Sir [[M. Visvesvaraya]] to be the chief engineer and secretary to government of Mysore in 1909.

== Honours ==

Rao was made a Companion of the Order of the Indian Empire in 1910.
*A major road junction along the Race Course Road in central Bangalore, is named after him as Dewan T. Ananda Rao Circle.

== References ==

* {{cite book|title=Mysore Gazetteer|pages=3124–3125}}
* {{cite book|title=Mysore Gazetteer|pages=3026–3032}}

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