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Rh mensem. Therefore the compromise was not effected, and the suit was continued with rigor chiefly by Raja Venkatadri Appa Row. He died before the matter was settled.

Sri Rajah Venkatadri Appa Rao Bahadur was first taught Persian under the supervision of his father. He became a great scholar in that language and also in Telugu. He was a poet and his compositions bear testimony to his ripe scholarship. He married the only daughter of Sri Malrazu Kondala Rao Garu, pensioned Zemindar of Narasaraopet. The result of this union is Sri Rajah Venkata Rangiah Appa Rao Bahadur Garu, who bears the name of this sketch.

Sri Rajah Venkata Rangiah Appa Rao Bahadur lost his father while he was three years old. The management of the estate was entrusted to his paternal uncle, Sri Rajah Simhadri Appa Rao Bahadur. Sri Rani Venkata Rama Lakshmi Kanakamma Rao Bahadar, the widow of the late Raja Venkatadri Appa Rao Bahadur, being dissatisfied with the management of Sri Rajah Simhadri Appa Rao Bahadar, took everything into her hands. She went with her son and also with a number of her relations to many places of pilgrimage in India. She was in charge of the estate only for a year, when the Court of Wards took its management under them, and sent the minor Zemindar first to Masulipatam, and then to Madras for education. At the latter place, he joined the Pacheappa's College, and read up to the Matriculation standard, during which period he was under the guardianship of Mr. R. U. Potts. The Zemindar was taken on tour to almost all the places of importance in India and