A. Seshayya Sastri
Sir Amaravati Seshayya Sastri KCSI , or Sashiah Sastri, was an Indian administrator who served as the Diwan of Travancore from May 1872 toMay 1877 and as the Diwan of Pudukkottai from 1878 to 1894. He is credited with having modernized the city of Pudukkottai.
Seshayya Sastri was born in the village of Amaravati in Tanjore district, Madras Presidency in 1828 in a poor Hindu family. At the age of nine, Seshayya Sastri moved to Madras city with his uncle Gopala Aiyer. Seshayya Sastri had his schooling and higher education in Madras and graduated in 1848 in first class.
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