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of the Government. Whereupon the honours and titles bestowed on members of his family by the Delhi Emperors or Carnatic Nawabs were scrutinised and proceedings gazetted that the Rajah thenceforth be addressed as Rajah Velugoti Kummara Yachama Naidu Bahadur, C.S.I., Raja of Venkatagiri. This order was communicated by the Collector of Nellore in letter No. 212, dated 25th July, 1867. A little later His Excellency the Governor-General in Council passed proceedings No. 25, dated 19th August, 1867, that Panchahasar and Munsubdar be suffixed to the title of Rajah of Venkatagiri and this matter also was communicated by the Collector. All this can be verified with No. 4203, dated 5th September, 1867, of the Gazette of the Government of India.

In 1869 the Rajah was invited to Madras by the Governor of Madras on account of the visit of His Royal Highness the Duke of Edinburgh. This time also he got the usual