Panchapakesa Ayyar, J.-This is an appeal by one Dalavoi Kumaraswam Mudaliar against the order of Ramaswami, J., in A.A.O.No. 83 of 1955, reversing the order of the District Judge of Tirunelveli, dismissing O.P. No 19 of 1954, filed by his wife Raiammal alias Valliammal, for making her the guardian of the person of her two minor sons, Shanmughanatha Mudaliar and Subramania Mudaliar, and appointing her the guardian of the persons of those two minor children, subject to certain terms, like sending the children for two days in the week and on other auspicious occasions to their father, undertaking not to alienate the affections of the children from the father, educating the children properly, etc.

We have perused the entire records and heard the learned counsel on both sides The facts were briefly these: Kumaraswami Mudaliar, the appellant before us, belongs to an ancient, rich and aristocratic family of Tondaimandalam Mudaliars in Tirunelveli town, called the Dalavois. He had married in his own caste, according to caste rites, but that lady died in 1926. Even when she was alive, Kumaraswami Mudaliar began keeping one Kalyam alias Papammal, a lady belonging to the Vellala caste, as his

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