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{{Short description|Indian zamindar, philanthropist, and businessman}}
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'''Rao Bahadur Dhanakoti Mudaliar''' or '''Arcot Dhanakoti Mudaliar''' was a [[Zamindar]], Philanthropist, and Businessman at the [[Madras Presidency]] in the later 19th Century.<ref name="Victoria">{{cite book|title=History of the Carnatic Lodge No. 2031, E.C. 1883-1933 Jubilee|year = 1933|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=EbIDAAAAMAAJ&q=dhanakoti}}</ref>

==Mudaliar==
He was born into a wealthy family in 1852,<ref>{{cite book|title=The golden book of India; a genealogical and biographical dictionary of the ruling princes, chiefs, nobles, and other personages, titled or decorated, of the Indian empire, with an appendix for Ceylon|year=1900|url=https://archive.org/details/goldenbookofindi00lethrich|page=[https://archive.org/details/goldenbookofindi00lethrich/page/54 54]}}</ref> and belongs to the locally dominating and largest land owning Vanniyar family. He was ventured into Military and Railway Contracting, which grow as a Contracting Empire in [[Madras|Madras City]]. He was also a Member of [[Madras Municipal Corporation]] in 1885. His nephew, A. Thangavelu Naicker, was also a contractor.<ref>{{cite book|title=Essays on Indian Politics 1870 to 1940|author1=John Gallagher |author2=Gordon Johnson |author3=Anil Seal |date=26 July 1973 |page=165|isbn=9780521098113 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=x104AAAAIAAJ&q=dhanakoti&pg=PA332}}</ref>

==Philanthropy==
He bequeathed his assets to many libraries and educational institutions. He donated to the [[Victoria Memorial, Kolkata|Victoria Memorial]] for the purchase of books, which were housed in the [[Connemara Public Library]],<ref>{{cite web|title=Connemara Public library, Dhanakoti Collection|url=http://www.connemarapubliclibrarychennai.com/about-us}}</ref> and also made several contributions to other causes.<ref>{{cite web|title = The revolutionary manager
|url = http://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/chennai/chen-columns/the-revolutionary-manager/article3824308.ece}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xyEpAQAAIAAJ&q=dhanakoti+mudaliar|title=Industry Commerce Journal, Volume 12, 1957|year=1957}}</ref>

==Other Activities==
Mudaliar was a member of the council in the Gyan Samaj, a carantic music Sabha, also considered as the mother of other Sabhas in Madras. He joined along with Sir Pitty Tyagaraya Chetty<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.thehindu.com/features/friday-review/history-and-culture/the-first-sabha-of-madras/article3893003.ece|title=The first Sabha of Madras}}</ref> and he was also one of the first executives in the council of [[Victoria Technical Institute|The Victoria Technical Institute]].<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=tPlYAAAAYAAJ&q=dhanakoti+mudaliar|title=The Victoria Technical Institute and Memorial Hall|year=1909}}</ref>

==See also==
*[[Chengalvaraya Naicker]]
*[[Kandasamy Kandar]]

==References==
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