Subramaniya, Siva : (1884-1925), a close associate of V.O.C. Pillai (q.v.), he too was a nationalist in the Tilak school of politics. He had probably accompanied Pillai to the momentous 1907 Congress Session at Surat & on return propagated the goals & principles of the Nationalist Party. A leader of the labouring classes he organised the strike at British-owned Coral Mills in collaboration with Pillai. Their speeches & those of their colleagues at the Swadeshi meetings effectively spread the message of the nationalist party. Nine of them were arrested on March 12, 1908, on the charge of distributing among students a pamphlet describing a secret organisation of the Russians, leading to much damage to Government property & records in Tuticorin & Tirunelveli. Reports of these events appeared in Tilak’s Marāthā Sri Aurobindo’s Bande Mataram. Shiva & Pillai were sentenced to transportation for life, but the High Court reduced it to six years imprisonment.
... control of the labour market by British capital has been taken by the bureaucrats as a blow aimed at British rule.... The people seem to have found worthy leaders in Sits. Chidambaram Pillai and Subramaniya Siva and have so far held their own in the struggle. We await further developments with 1 'The Next Step,' an article dated 31 March 1908. Page 201 interest and with ...
... Native Association was founded in 1852. Through this association, the grievances of the people were submitted to the British Government. The Madras Mahajana Sabha was later established in 1884. G. Subramaniya Iyer, P. Anandacharlu, Page 52 and Rangaiya Naidu played a significant part in the association to redress the miseries of the people. Rise of Indian National... hip of W. C. Bonnerji. C. Vijayaraghavachariyar of Salem, a close associate of A. O. Hume, was one of the members of the committee which drafted the constitution of Indian National Congress. G. Subramaniya Iyer of Chennai participated and moved a resolution in the congress. In the beginning, the role of the Indian National Congress was not to oppose the British government, but to submit their grievances... radically changed his life, propelling him to brief all-India fame and immortality in the Tamil world. In the Madras Presidency the Independence Movement was championed by the likes of Subramanya Siva, the poet Subramanyam Bharathi, later to be joined by V.O.C. He entered politics in 1905 following the partition of Bengal, joining the Indian National Congress and taking a hardliner stand. He also ...
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