PREFACE
When I was engaged last year in writing a small book, in Tamil, of Stories from Indian History for the use of pupils in Elementary Schools, I came across, quite fortunately, some interesting books on Sir Thomas Munro. A careful study of these books led me to the conclusion that his life could still inspire us with enthusiasm and zeal in our respective duties and serve us as an ideal in many walks of life. So I thought that a mere chapter in my earlier book would not do and that his Life deserved special treatment in a separate book for itself.
It is superfluous for me to enumerate here the traits of mind and character of this Great and Good Man, for I believe I have done justice to them, as best as I could, in the last Chapter of this book. But the very fact that he is remembered aven to this day in several parts of this Presidency es “the Father of the people”, in several other parts as “the Ryots' Friend", and in Gooty as “the sage Munro (Munrovarishi)" is enough to convince anybody of the Great Good he has done for this country.
