C. Raja Raja Varma
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C. Raja Raja Varma was an accomplished India
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n painter. He is more famous as the youngest brother of the famous painter Raja Ravi Varma
Raja Ravi Varma
Raja Ravi Varma was an Indian painter from the princely state of Travancore who achieved recognition for his depiction of scenes from the epics of the Mahabharata and Ramayana...

. He acted assistant, secretary, and business manager of Raja Ravi Varma.
He was also an English language
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 scholar. His diary The Diary of C. Raja Raja Varma was published by Oxford University Press (edited by Erwin Neumayer and Christine Schelberger). It is considered as one of the most important and authentic source materials on the last ten years of the life of Raja Ravi Varma. He died childless, having married Janaki Amma, whose younger sister was married to CV Raman Pillai.

On the 4th of January 1905 after an operation for inflammation of the intestines, C. Rajaraja Varma died at Bangalore
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. The accounts of his nephew state how he regretted not having provided well for his wife, Janaki. In 1906, after the death of her sister, she married CV Raman Pillai and lived in Trivandrum until her death in 1933.

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