Sir Rajagopala Krishna Yachendra GCIE

Order of the Indian Empire

The Most Eminent Order of the Indian Empire is an order of chivalry founded by Queen Victoria in 1878. The Order includes members of three classes:#Knight Grand Commander #Knight Commander #Companion...

 KCSI

Order of the Star of India

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(1857–1916) was an Indian nobleman and politician. He was the zamindar

Zamindar

A Zamindar or zemindar , was an aristocrat, typically hereditary, who held enormous tracts of land and ruled over and taxed the bhikaaris who lived on batavaslam. Over time, they took princely and royal titles such as Maharaja , Raja , Nawab , and Mirza , Chowdhury , among others...

of the estate of Venkatagiri

Venkatagiri estate

The estate of Venkatagiri was a zamindari estate in the erstwhile Madras Presidency. It was located in the Nellore district of the present-day Andhra Pradesh. The town of Venkatagiri was the administrative headquarters....

 in Nellore district

Nellore district

Sri Amarajeevi Potti Sri Ramulu Nellore District is one of the 23 districts of Andhra Pradesh. Nellore is famous for high paddy field, and so it got its name from "Nelli". The population of the district was 2,966,082 of which 22.45% were urban as of 2011....

 from 1878 to 1916.

Rajagopala was a non-official member of Madras Legislative Council

Madras Legislative Council

Tamil Nadu Legislative Council is the upper house of the bicameral legislature of the Indian state of Tamil Nadu. It began its existence as Madras Legislative Council, the first provincial legislature for Madras Presidency. It was initially created as an advisory body in 1861, by the British...

. He served in the Council starting from 1887. His great grandson Ramakrishna Ranga Rao became the Chief Minister of Madras Presidency

Madras Presidency

The Madras Presidency , officially the Presidency of Fort St. George and also known as Madras Province, was an administrative subdivision of British India...

 after dyarchy was established.

Honours

Rajagopala Yachendra was made a Knight Commander of the Order of the Indian Empire and subsequently promoted to a Knight Grand Commander (GCIE) in 1915. He was made a Knight Commander of the Order of the Star of India in 1888. He was awarded the Kaiser-i-Hind Medal in 1900.