[citation needed] He was educated in private and succeeded to throne at the age of nine on the death of his father with the British political agent at Pudukkottai acting as the regent.

[1] Sastri reformed the administration and rebuilt the city of Pudukkottai as per modern principles of town planning.

[citation needed] Ramachandra Tondaiman married Rani Brihadambal Rajammani Bayi Sahib on 13 June 1845.

Ramachandra married for a second time, to Janaki Subbammal, the eldest daughter of the zamindar of Neduvasal on 31 August 1848.

[3] Ramachandra Tondaiman, himself, was a prolific composer and set his drama Kuruvaji Nataka to music and had it enacted at the Viralimalai Murugan temple.