Swadeshi Steam Navigation Company : See V.O. Chidambaram Pillai.
... moment it ceases even to respect the show of justice, from that moment its days are numbered. The cynical disregard of all decorum with which the shows of law are being used to crush the Swadeshi Steam Navigation Company in Tuticorin will exasperate the whole of the mercantile community in the country. It will convince those who still dream that industrial development is possible without political power... British steam services to help the carriage of Swadeshi goods, has begun to shake the complaisant acquiescence of the commercial classes in bureaucratic absolutism. The collapse of the Swadeshi Steam Navigation Company will mean that from Cape Comorin to Budaricashram the cry will go forth of "Swadeshi in Danger" with the result that the whole nation will awaken to the necessity of uniting in one desperate... to the bureaucracy and the destruction of his people and his motherland on the other. When Srijut Chidambaram Pillai set himself to the task of Page 981 establishing a Swadeshi Steam Navigation Company between Tuticorin and Colombo, he was taking a step which meant the beginning of the end for the British commercial monopoly in India. There are three departments of Swadeshi which have ...
... upon unjust laws not only to muzzle free expression, but to murder India's artistic and industrial capacity. Well, the public-spirited V. O. C, for his part, established at Tuticorin the Swadeshi Steam Navigation Company (registered ort 10 October 1906). Srinivasachari's entire family, including his brother and brother-in-law, were his great supporters in this venture. The Company's two ships served as... free Indian manufacturers from the British commercial monopoly. The South Indian merchants immediately patronized the new Indian enterprise. To the utter shock of European merchants, the Swadeshi Steam Navigation Company became a successful venture. So successful that the foreign merchants turned green with envy, and put great pressure on vexed British bureaucracy to act. The arrest of V. O. C. was nothing... Bande Mataram (23 March 1908) said, "The Madras Standard has undoubtedly hit the right nail on the head when it derives the Tinnevelly disturbances from the establishment of the Swadeshi Steam Navigation Company and the attempt to throw difficulties in the way of its success." He summed up the situation. "The struggle generated an acute feeling on both sides and when the commercial war extended ...
... speaking in public, VOC floated a corporate enterprise. He garnered the support of local merchants and launched the first indigenous Indian shipping enterprise, on 12 November 1906, 'The Swadeshi Steam Navigation Company', thus earning himself the sobriquet, 'Kappalottiya Tamilan' (the Tamil who launched ships). This was indeed a daring move for its day, something extraordinary for a small-town lawyer... release he was not permitted to return to his Tirunelveli district. With his bar license stripped from him he moved to Chennai with his wife and two young sons. To his dismay, the Swadeshi Steam Navigation Company had already been liquidated in 1911, and the ships auctioned to their competitors. VOC and his family had lost all their wealth and property in his legal defence. In Madras, almost broke ...
... breaking any law so as to persuade him to desist? Of course the said policeman will not be liable to punishment unless it can be proved that he cut in bad faith. Page 163 The Swadeshi Steam Navigation Company We publish elsewhere an appeal from the promoters of the enterprise which first encouraged Indian energy and capital into the new path many are now preparing to follow. This Company ...
... and thanking them for the bravery they have shown in defending the cause of Swadeshi. He hinted at the oppression of the European merchants backed by the bureaucracy in putting down the Swadeshi Steam Navigation Company, which they could not do by any lawful means. He ended by saying that there is no longer time for speaking or writing for the Motherland, but now is the time when the brain is to be prepared ...
... Tamil weekly, India, in order to carry on more securely their anti-British work as well as their work of regenerating Indian Culture. Previously Parthasarathy was the Secretary of the Swadeshi Steam Navigation Company Page 196 which the Iyengar family was financially supporting for patriotic reasons. During his tour in Northern India in that capacity he met Sri Aurobindo in Calcutta ...
... a steam shipping company—an enterprise that propelled VOC, until then a modest pleader in the local court, to national attention. VOC had galvanised the local merchants to launch the Swadeshi Steam Navigation Company in late 1906 and gave the British shipping company a run for its money. The Swadeshi Company ran steamers between Tuticorin and Colombo and VOC spent considerable time in Colombo raising ...
... the younger brother and the brother-in-law of Srinivasachari at Calcutta when he was residing in his Na' Meso's house. The brother, S. Parthasarathi Iyengar, was probably the "Secretary Swadeshi Steam Navigation Company" with whom Sri Aurobindo had an engagement at "3 o'clock" on 20 July 1909, as he noted in his diary. Parthasarathi had gone to North India to canvass for his Navigation Company. Moni, ...
... Anti-Swadeshi in Madras 23-March-1908 The Madras Standard has undoubtedly hit the right nail on the head when it derives the Tinnevelly disturbances from the establishment of the Swadeshi Steam Navigation Company and the attempt to throw difficulties in the way of its success. The struggle generated an acute feeling on both sides and when the commercial war extended itself and the people took sides ...
... Delivered during the Same Period 6.Feb-3.May.1908 Bande Mataram The Anti-Swadeshi Campaign 27-March-1908 The official campaign against the Swadeshi Steam Navigation Company is now drawing to a head. The enquiries made by Sub-Collector Ashe as to the list of shareholders are sufficiently ominous, while the case against the Tuticorin lawyers is an almost u ...
... lawyers and writers, they formed the first group of nationalist Tamils. Appa and the Mandayam brothers, Tirumalachari and Srinivasachari, contributed generously in starting Pillai’s Swadeshi Steam Navigation Company and in launching Tirumalachari’s weekly India . Inspired by reports of revolutionary movements in Punjab and Bengal, Nayana’s student-followers at Madras, Vellore and Chittoor, persuaded ...
... organisation as is possible so that the movement may arrive at a consciousness of ordered strength. 26 Again, a fortnight later, Sri Aurobindo wrote on the death-grapple between the Swadeshi Steam Navigation Company (floated by V.O. Chidambaram Pillai) and the British Steam Navigation Company, and it was in the course of this article that the following ominous passage occurred: The persecution ...
... in its issue of 18 September 1909. It was this type of reporting that made India a treasure in Tamil journalism. Sri Aurobindo had also met at Calcutta S. Parthasarathi, 'Secretary Swadeshi Steam Navigation Company' That is why when Sri Aurobindo received the adesh (Command) to go to Pondicherry from Chandernagore, he had sent Moni with a note addressed to S. Parthasarathi Iyenger, c/o 'India' ...
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