Jayalalithaa was born on 24 February 1948, at Melukote, in Pandavapura taluk of Mandya district, Mysore State (now Karnataka) to Jayaram and Vedavalli in an Iyengar family. Her grandfather was in the service of the Mysore kingdom as a surgeon, and the prefix Jaya (the victorious) was added to the names of various family members to reflect their association with Maharaja Jayachamarajendra Wodeyar of Mysore.[1] Her mother called her Komalavalli.[4] Jayalalithaas father died when she was two years old.[1] Her mother then moved to Bangalore, where her parents lived, with Jayalalithaa. Her mother eventually began to work as an actress in Tamil cinema, based in Chennai, having taken the screen name of Sandhya.[1] While in Bangalore, Jayalalithaa attended Bishop Cotton Girls School.[5] She completed her childhood education at Sacred Heart Matriculation School (popularly known as Church Park Presentation Convent or Presentation Church Park Convent) in Chennai.[6] She excelled at school and was offered a government scholarship to pursue further education.[5] She appears not to have accepted the admission offered to her at Stella Maris College, Chennai.[1] She is fluent in several languages, including Tamil, Kannada, Hindi, Malayalam, Telugu and English .
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