G. Ganapati Sastriar

Rao Saheb Gangadhara Ganapati Sastriar was an Indian civil servant and administrator who served as Diwan of Pudukkottai state from 25 October 1926 to 15 December 1926 and 28 February 1929 to 4 March 1931.

He was born in Thiruvalangadu, Nagapattinam district on 5 March 1876: to Janakiammaiyar Sastri (Pudukkotamma), who was the wife of Gangadhara Shastri, the legal advisor to the then Pudukkottai state, a Princely state in the Indian subcontinent under the British colonial rule. Sastriar was the elder brother to F. G. Natesa Iyer: one of the leading figures of the Indian National Congress during the Indian independence movement, from South India.. Sastriar initially studied at Raja's College, Pudukottai, then at St.Joseph's College, Tiruchirapalli (1893–94): before getting a degree in law from Madras Law College

The then Government of India, conferred on him the title Rao Saheb on 1 March 1929. After retiring from Government service in 1931, he served as a member of the senate of the University of Madras from 1933 to 1936.