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Was Advocate General of Madras, Member of the Governor's Council and as the Member of the Viceroy's Executive Council from 1920 onwards until he assumed the post of Diwan (Chief Minister) of Travancore. A prominent personality in pre-independence India , he is widely credited for his innovative and forward looking policies in modernising the state of Travancore, while some of his detractors criticise his administration as being authoritarian. Jawaharlal Nehru remarked about Iyer: There is little now in common between us except our common nationality. He is today a full- blooded apologist of British rule in India, especially during the last few years; an admirer of dictatorship in India and elsewhere, and himself a shinning ornament of autocracy in an Indian state. {Link without Title} An attempt on his life was made in 1947 . Post-independence, he chaired various national committees until his death in 1966 . EXTERNAL LINKS
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