Tributes paid to British governors

Tributes were paid to the memory of British Madras Governor Sir Thomas Munro and Coimbatore Collector John Sullivan on the occasion of the bicentenary of the historic first visit of Munro to the Nilgiris which paved the way for the creation of modern Nilgiris, a press release from the Nilgiri Documentation Centre (NDC) said.

A meeting was organised recently by the NDC to commemorate the occasion. Its honorary director, Venugopal Dharmalingam, said that but for the two officials, that there would be no Nilgiri hills “as we know of them today.”

N.Sundaradevan, former Additional Chief Secretary, Government of Tamil Nadu, recalled the contributions of Munro to the revenue and police administration, land tenure and education. ‘Munro was genuinely committed to the welfare of the Indian people’, he said.