Diwan Bahadur[1] Rishiyur Venkata Srinivasa Aiyar CIE (1852 – 31 March 1909) was an Indian civil servant, legislator and politician from the Madras Presidency.
On completion of his studies, Srinivasa Aiyar worked as Assistant master at Wesleyan High School, Bangalore for three years and as Assistant Lecturer in Government Arts College, Kumbakonam from 1873 to 1884.
[citation needed] In 1884, he joined the Provincial civil service of Madras as an assistant in the Revenue Settlement Department.
[3] He rose to become Secretary to the Commissioner of Revenue Settlement and was, in July 1896, appointed as the Director of the Department of Land Records and Agriculture in the Madras Presidency.
[3] He became the Inspector General of Registration in December 1903[4][5] and was nominated to the Madras Legislative Council in November 1902 and for a second term on 30 October 1903.