Aiyar, Subramaniya : G. Subramania Iyer (1855-1916), Moderate leader, jurist, & social reformer, who in 1878 founded The Hindu in collaboration with a few close friends. In July 1908, he was arrested for supporting the Swadeshi movement & advocating Swaraj, but the case was soon after withdrawn.
... resistance has been accepted, the necessity of the social boycott has been recognized as its natural concomitant. "Boycott foreign goods and boycott those who use foreign goods,"—the advice of Mr. Subramaniya Aiyar to his countrymen in Madras,—must be accepted by all who are in earnest. For without this boycott of persons the boycott of things cannot be effective; without the social boycott no national authority ...
... social boycott was "legitimate and indispensable as against persons guilty of treason to the nation": 'Boycott foreign goods and boycott those who use foreign goods,' - the advice of Mr. Subramaniya Aiyer to his countrymen in Madras, - must be accepted by all who are in earnest, ...without the social boycott no national authority depending purely on moral pressure can get its decrees ... a Tamil extremist paper in Madras. His writings and editorials breathed fire and brimstone, and so immediately overpowering were his patriotic songs that the Moderate leader, V. Krishnaswami Aiyar, insisted on financing the printing of 10,000 copies of the poems for free distribution. As in Bengal, as in Madras and Maharashtra and the Punjab, everywhere in India there was this new spirit ...
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