| | 26 | An important philanthropist Narrain Swamy set up a number of schools for the poor and on 1st January 1877 Lord Lytton, the Viceroy of India, conferred on Mudaliar the title of 'Rai Bahadur' in recognition of his spirited acts of charity [[FootNote(Marianne Furtado De Nazareth, Old is indeed gold, http://www.hindu.com/thehindu/mp/2002/04/25/stories/2002042500450200.htm The Mysore Gazette of 1897 says that the principal high schools located in Bangalore Cantonment were Bishop Cottons, St. Andrews, Baldwins and other `convent' schools for Europeans, with Narrainswamy Mudaliar's institution reserved for `natives')]]. Bipin Chandrapal served as the first headmaster of the now-renamed Arcot Sri Narrainswamy Mudaliar Free English High School during 1891-92. |