Sir Thomas George Rutherford
Governor of Bihar
In office
24 April 1944 – 12 May 1946
Preceded bySir Francis Mudie
Succeeded byThomas Alexander Stewart
In office
3 February 1943-6 September 1943
Preceded byNityanand Kanungo
Succeeded bySir Francis Mudie

Sir Thomas George Rutherford, KCSI, CIE (25 September 1886 – 5 August 1957) was a British administrator in India who served as Governor of Bihar from 1944 to 1946.[1][2][3] Rutherford is best known to the Indian people as the British general who killed Alluri Sitarama Raju and suppressed the Manyam Rebellion.[4]

Biography

Educated at George Watson's College, the University of Edinburgh, and University College, London, Rutherford entered the Indian Civil Service in 1910.[5]

References

  1. ^ "List of Governors Bihar". Governor of Bihar. Retrieved 4 January 2021.
  2. ^ Bihar (India); Pranab Chandra Roy Choudhury (1957). Bihar District Gazetteers. Superintendent, Secretariat Press, Bihar. p. 504. Retrieved 5 January 2021.
  3. ^ Mortimer Epstein (27 December 2016). The Statesman's Year-Book: Statistical and Historical Annual of the States of the World for the Year 1943. Springer. pp. 146–. ISBN 978-0-230-27072-5. Retrieved 5 January 2021.
  4. ^ "Alluri Sitarama Raju, Unique Revolutionary, Remembered On Rampa Adivasi Revolt's Centenary| Countercurrents". countercurrents.org. 2022-08-27. Retrieved 2023-07-04.
  5. ^ "Rutherford, Sir Thomas George". Who's Who & Who Was Who. A & C Black. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)


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