Political Inclinations
Ram Iyengar was a loyalist and Anglophile. Ram Iyengar is described by Chatterjee and Mukhopadhyaya in the following words:
| “ | the first Indian in Madras to keep his house in European style, to teach English and European music to the females of his family, and to invite European gentlemen to parties at his residence | ” |
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