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RAO, SIR DINKAR (1819–1896)

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RAO, See also:SIR DINKAR (1819–1896) , See also:Indian statesman, was See also:born in See also:Ratnagiri See also:district, Bombay, on the loth of See also:December 1819, being a Chitpavan Brahmin. At fifteen he entered the service of the See also:Gwalior See also:state, in which his ancestors had served. Rapidly promoted to the responsible See also:charge of a See also:division, he displayed unusual talents in reorganizing the See also:police and See also:revenue departments, and in reducing See also:chaos to See also:order. In 1851 Dinkar Rao became See also:dewan. The events which led to the See also:British victories of See also:Maharajpur and Panniar in 1844 had filled the state with mutinous soldiery, ruined the finances, and weakened authority. With a strong See also:hand the dewan suppressed disorder, abolished ruinous imposts, executed public See also:works, and by a reduction of salaries, including his own, turned a deficit into a surplus. When the contingent mutinied in 1857, he never wavered in See also:loyalty; and although the state troops also mutinied in See also:June 1858 on the approach of Tantia Topi, he adhered to the British cause, retiring with Maharaja Sindhia to the See also:Agra fort. After the restoration of order he remained See also:minister until December 1859. In 1873 he was appointed See also:guardian to the See also:minor Rana of See also:Dholpur, but soon afterwards he resigned, owing to See also:ill-See also:health. In 1875 the See also:viceroy selected him as a See also:commissioner, with the Maharajas Sindhia and See also:Jaipur, and three British colleagues, to try the See also:Gaekwar of See also:Baroda on a charge of attempting to See also:poison the British See also:resident. He also served in the legislative See also:council of See also:India, and was frequently consulted by viceroys on difficult questions. An See also:estate was conferred upon him, with the hereditary See also:title of See also:Raja, for his eminent services, and the decoration of K.C.S.I.

He died on the 9th of See also:

January 1896. No Indian statesman of the loth See also:century gained a higher reputation, yet he only commenced the study of See also:English at the See also:age of See also:forty, and was never able to converse fluently in it; his orthodoxy resented social reforms; he kept aloof from the Indian See also:Congress, and he had received no training in British See also:administration.

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