[2] He was also chosen as the acting Governor of the Mysore state and was the first person to translate Mahatma Gandhi's autobiography to the Kannada language.
[2][3] Nittoor Srinivasa Rau was born in Bangalore into an educated, middle-class Kannada Brahmin family of Mysore state.
His mother, Seethamma, was the sister of M. N. Krishna Rao, a government official who, many decades later, would serve as acting Diwan of Mysore for a few months in 1941.
As per Indian tradition, Rau's parents arranged a suitable match for him, and he was married in 1923 at the age of 20 to his very young wife who was 14 to his first cousin Padmamma, daughter of his maternal uncle M. N. Krishna Rao.
Rau named his elder daughter Jayaseetha in honour of his beloved mother (Seethamma) and of the then Maharaja of Mysore, Jayachamaraja Wodeyar.
She was married, in a match arranged by Rau in the traditional Indian way, to Dr. Visvanatha Premanand, a gentleman of their own community and similar social background.
[5] Rau's younger daughter, Lalita, worked as a teacher of the visually impaired for many years before she retired to spend time with her grandchildren.
[1] After completing his degree in law, Nittoor Srinivasa Rau returned to Bangalore and started his career as a lawyer.
He and his wife assumed the title Ibbaru Kannadigaru and started translating the autobiography, which was then published in the form of a serial in the Kannada newspapers, Vishwa Karnataka and Lokmata.
[1] One of the important books published by him was Bala Prapancha, a collection of stories for children written by the renowned Shivaram Karanth.