Early Life
Nittoor Srinivasa Rau was born in Bangalore. His mother was Seethamma, and his father Nittoor Shamanna was a school teacher and the head master of a school in Chitradurga. Nittoor is a village in the Gubbi Taluk of the Tumkur district of Karnataka, and its name got attached to Srinivasa Rau's name since his grandfather was a native of that village. He was also the nephew of M. N. Krishna Rao, the Diwan of Mysore kingdom. He did his initial schooling in schools at Hosadurga, Challakere and Shimoga before completing his graduation in the Bachelor of Science at Central College, Bangalore. He joined the National High School as a teacher of Science and Mathematics and later went back to studies and joined the Madras Law College from where he completed the degree of Bachelor of Law in 1927. He later married Padmamma and had two sons, Senior Advocate & Littérateur N S Chandrasekhara and technocrat N S Subbanna, and two daughters, Dr. Jayaseetha Premanand and Dr. Lalitha Sudarshan.
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