C. Raja Raja Varma
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C. Raja Raja Varma was an accomplished India
n painter. He is more famous as the youngest brother of the famous painter Raja Ravi Varma
. He acted assistant, secretary, and business manager of Raja Ravi Varma.
He was also an English language
scholar. His diary The Diary of C. Raja Raja Varma was published by Oxford University Press (edited by Erwin Neumayer and Christine Schelberger). It is considered as one of the most important and authentic source materials on the last ten years of the life of Raja Ravi Varma. He died childless, having married Janaki Amma, whose younger sister was married to CV Raman Pillai.
On the 4th of January 1905 after an operation for inflammation of the intestines, C. Rajaraja Varma died at Bangalore
. The accounts of his nephew state how he regretted not having provided well for his wife, Janaki. In 1906, after the death of her sister, she married CV Raman Pillai and lived in Trivandrum until her death in 1933.
India
India , officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world...
n painter. He is more famous as the youngest brother of the famous painter Raja Ravi Varma
Raja Ravi Varma
Raja Ravi Varma was an Indian painter from the princely state of Travancore who achieved recognition for his depiction of scenes from the epics of the Mahabharata and Ramayana...
. He acted assistant, secretary, and business manager of Raja Ravi Varma.
He was also an English language
English language
English is a West Germanic language that arose in the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms of England and spread into what was to become south-east Scotland under the influence of the Anglian medieval kingdom of Northumbria...
scholar. His diary The Diary of C. Raja Raja Varma was published by Oxford University Press (edited by Erwin Neumayer and Christine Schelberger). It is considered as one of the most important and authentic source materials on the last ten years of the life of Raja Ravi Varma. He died childless, having married Janaki Amma, whose younger sister was married to CV Raman Pillai.
On the 4th of January 1905 after an operation for inflammation of the intestines, C. Rajaraja Varma died at Bangalore
Bangalore
Bengaluru , formerly called Bengaluru is the capital of the Indian state of Karnataka. Bangalore is nicknamed the Garden City and was once called a pensioner's paradise. Located on the Deccan Plateau in the south-eastern part of Karnataka, Bangalore is India's third most populous city and...
. The accounts of his nephew state how he regretted not having provided well for his wife, Janaki. In 1906, after the death of her sister, she married CV Raman Pillai and lived in Trivandrum until her death in 1933.