You're quite correct that Companions (of whichever order) were not 'Sir', but it was very common for a CIE or CSI to be later knighted (as a knight bachelor), as with Sir V. Bhashyam Aiyangar or Sir C. Sankaran Nair or Sir C. Madhavan Nair or Sir P. Anandacharlu- in fact, as best I can tell, more common than KCSI or KCIE ever were. Plenty of the most famous 'Sirs' weren't in any order, as with Sir C. V. Kumaraswami Sastri or Sir V. C. Desikachariar or the Tatas, etc. I haven't checked the gazettes; do you know specifically that no Mysore ministers were knights bachelor? Hölderlin2019 ( talk) 04:25, 27 March 2024 (UTC)
You're quite correct that Companions (of whichever order) were not 'Sir', but it was very common for a CIE or CSI to be later knighted (as a knight bachelor), as with Sir V. Bhashyam Aiyangar or Sir C. Sankaran Nair or Sir C. Madhavan Nair or Sir P. Anandacharlu- in fact, as best I can tell, more common than KCSI or KCIE ever were. Plenty of the most famous 'Sirs' weren't in any order, as with Sir C. V. Kumaraswami Sastri or Sir V. C. Desikachariar or the Tatas, etc. I haven't checked the gazettes; do you know specifically that no Mysore ministers were knights bachelor? Hölderlin2019 ( talk) 04:25, 27 March 2024 (UTC)