Keywords: Thondaiman1.jpg en Photograph of the H E Tondaiman Rajah and his ministers part of the 'Photographic Views of Poodoocottah' Madras 1858 collection taken by Linnaeus Tripe in 1858 In 1855 Tripe was commissioned to take photographs for the British East India Company and the Madras Presidency which resulted in six albums one of which concentrated on Pudukottai and is seen here Now in the modern state of Tamil Nadu Pudukottai was once a princely state under the Tondaiman Rajas This view shows a portrait group in the durbar hall of the palace with Ramchandra Tondiman-the Raja of Pudukkottai-seated in the middle flanked by two rows of seated ministers http //www europeana eu/portal/record/92037/75835C5683186445226F86FB70B24713C2246808 html Europeana http //www bl uk/onlinegallery/onlineex/apac/photocoll/h/019pho000000952u00001000 html British Library Creator Linnaeus Tripe 1858 <gallery> Todiman Raja in his Durbar Pudukkottai 1858 jpg </gallery> PD-old-100 Photographs of India by Linnaeus Tripe Rulers of princely states of India Pudukkottai State Tamil Nadu in the 1850s 1858 in India 1858 photographs |