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 the Irish Treaty, and has been re-attached to the Madras Guards.

On the 19th March, 1920, the Rajah was raised to the rank of Honorary Aide-de-Camp to His Excellency the Governor of Madras. In 1921 he was nominated as a member of the Council of State (which he has subsequently resigned) newly opened after the Reform Act of 1920, and on 1st January, 1922, honoured with the rare distinction of K.C.I.E.

He extended the size of the Estate by purchasing several villages, Arthamala, Putheri, Kotambedu and others, formerly belonging to the Kalahasti Estate, at a cost of nearly a lakh-and-a-half rupees.

He made the following liberal donations during the period of the Great War. Besides Rs. 25,000 contributed to the War Fund, and Rs. 30,000 subscribed for the purchase of four Ambulance Motor Cars — two in the name of himself to be used in Europe and two in the name of the Rani for the use of the sick