Vijaya Raghunatha Pallavarayar Dorai Raja (1872–1930) was an Indian civil servant and administrator and a member of the royal house of Pudukkottai.
[citation needed] Raghunatha Pallavarayar served as a member of the Pudukkottai State Council from 1898 to 1909.
When six-year-old Rajagopala Tondaiman succeeded to the throne on the death of Martanda Bhairava Tondaiman on 28 May 1928, Raghunatha Pallavarayar continued as regent formally relinquishing his office in February 1929, with the appointment of a regency council by the Government of India.
[3][1] Vijaya Raghunatha Pallavarayar Dorai Rajah married a Scottish music teacher, Muriel Briggs, after his engagement to an Englishwoman was broken off in 1914.
He lived with his wife Muriel at Tredis, the bungalow owned by the Tondaimans in Kodaikanal.