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Santha Rama Rau (24 January 1923 – 21 April 2009)^[1] was an Indian-born American writer.

Early life and background

While Santha's father was a Chitrapur Saraswat Brahmin from Canara whose mother-tongue was Konkani, her mother was a Kashmiri Brahmin from the far north of India, who had however grown up in Hubli.^[2]

In her early years, Rama Rau lived in an India under British rule.

When aged 5 and a half, with her 8-year-old sister Premila, she briefly attended an Anglo-Indian School where the teacher anglicized their names.

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Santha Rama Rau was born to a wealthy family in India.

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Santha's name was changed to Cynthia and her sister's was changed to Pamela. The environment there they found to be condescending, as their teacher told them that "Indians cheat". They walked home, and never returned to that school.

The incident was recounted in Rama Rau's short memoir entitled "By Any Other Name".^[3]

Career

When India won its independence in 1947, Rama Rau's father was appoin