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 and Lama Etanis Wijaya Singhe, the late Honourable Rajah of Bobbili, the Rajah of Bhadrachalam, the Rajah of Kalahasti and leading European officials of the district.

On the 26th of the same month His Excellency Lord Pentland, the then Governor of Madras paid a visit to Venkatagfiri at the Rajah's request, and laid the Foundation Stone of the Gosha Hospital proposed to be built in the name of Her Imperial Majesty Queen Mary to supply a long-felt need and remove the suffering of women.

The next year the Rajah was honoured in February with the Second Lieutenancy in the Indian Land Force, and underwent training for more than a year under the Madras Guards. He is the first Indian Rajah who has been enlisted in British Regiment. In 1919 he was transferred to the Prince of Wales Leinster Regiment which he had subsequently left owing to its disbandment after