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funded by the Maharaja and his support allowed its expansion into other cities and genres, including Carnatic music in Madras. Recognising that the role of a patron did not stop at appreciation, considerable funds went into the construction of infrastructure and opportunities by making scholarships available for students. Universities that received their munificence included Calcutta, Madras, Allahabad, the Benaras Hindu University, the Aligarh Muslim University and Andhra University.C.V. Raman worked for the Finance Department of the Government at Calcutta. He was very frustrated as his real passion was physics and he was unable to pursue it. Here is an extract from his biography describing those days.%u201cOn his tram ride from office one day in early August, Raman saw a big board on a building that read: Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science (IACS). He jumped out at the next stop and walked back to the sign, at 210 Bow Bazar Street. Raman went into the building and was met by Asutosh Dey, the lab assistant and assistant secretary of the IACS, who was to become his staunch supporter for the next twenty-five years Raman saw the vast empty rooms and wondered why no one was at work. He looked at the Vizianagaram Laboratory and gasped %u2013 here was a well-equipped lab just waiting for him; it must be a dream, he thought, a lab without anyone working in it! Ashu Babu talked sadly about how busy the place had been a few years ago and how desolate it was now. Raman said, 'It won't be desolate from now on. I am here.' His exile was over. He could return to his own land of science. He said as much with jubilation when he returned home and wondered why he had not seen the sign all these days.%u201d %u2013 extract from his biography He went to work in the Vizianagaram Laboratory in his spare time but soon he gave up his job and started working fulltime. And over the next thirty years, he became the nucleus for a whole galaxy of scientists who came to work at the IACS. 42