Arthur Galletti

Arthur Mario Agricola Collier Galletti di Cadilhac or Arthur Galletti (25 March 1877 – 23 February 1967) was a British Indian civil servant of Italian origin who worked in the Madras Presidency. He translated several works from Telugu to English and also compiled a dictionary of Telugu.

Galletti was the son of Count Arturo Antonio and Margaret Isabella Collier. He was educated at Trinity College, Oxford and joined the Indian Civil Service in 1900 working in the Godavari district as a collector and later as a magistrate and became an undersecretary to the Revenue Department in 1905. He served as a French translator to the government from 1909. In 1918 a refusal to drink to the health of King George at a party held in Horsleykonda on 24 May (Empire Day) resulted in his being sidelined and a formal enquiry was held by a committee headed by Sir William Ayling.

Galletti wrote on the Dutch in Malabar (1911). He retired from the civil service in 1934. As an expert on Telugu, he translated K. Viresalingam's Vinodha Taringini and compiled a dictionary of Telugu in 1935. He also wrote numerous government reports.[1][2]

He married Clara Salvadori-Paleotti in 1906 and they had a daughter and a son.

References
  1. Rao, C. Hayavadana (1915). The Indian Biographical Dictionary 1915. Pillar and Co. pp. 152–153.
  2. Stoddart, Brian (2011). A people's collector in the British Raj. Readworthy.
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