![]() The total cost of the buildings amounted to nearly Rs 66000. Rs 100000 came from the MADRAS PRESIDENCY Government Securities. Many other Mirasudar from Thanjavur district too made generous contributions totalling Rs 30000 towards the establishment of the Medical School & Raja Mirasudar Hospital. Raja Mirasudar Hospital & The Tanjore Medical School were built by the British Collector of Thanjavur, Henry Sullivan Thomas in 1878 to commemorate the visit to the Tanjore district by the future King of England, The Prince of Wales, Edward VII in 1875.Ī generous contribution of 40 acres of land for the buildings by Rani Kamatchiamba Bai Saheb, the wife of Sivaji II, the last Maratha King of Thanjavur, who lost his state to the British, should always be remembered with extreme gratitude by all of us. ![]() ![]() When we started our medical graduation in 1970 at the THANJAVUR MEDICAL COLLEGE, we never ever thought that we all are spreaded across the Globe and few of us where settled down today in the UK in the land of the Prince of Wales 135 years after the establishment of the TANJORE MEDICAL SCHOOL & THE RAJA MIRASUDAR HOSPITAL by the British in Thanjavur in 1880. ![]()
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