C.K.SUBRAMANIA MUDALIAR

C.K.SUBRAMANIA MUDALIAR

Subject : Important Personalities

Context : The Tamil Nadu government has decided to digitise papers regarding properties and assets owned by temples across the state — estimated to number over 44,000 — and make them available in the public domain, in line with a poll promise made by Chief Minister M K Stalin.

Concept :

• K.SubramaniaMudaliar (1878 – 1961 ) is well known for his treatise on PeriyaPuranam. However, he was also a patriot who supported the freedom movement from his student days.
• When SwadesamitranG.SubramaniaIyer came to Coimbatore, CKS and his friends wanted to take him in a procession.
• They participated in several meetings addressed by Surendranath Banerjee and also Bipin Chandra Pal in Madras.
• Later, the lawyer CKS joined the boycott of foreign goods by adhering to the clarion call of Aurobindo Ghosh and V.O.Chidambaram Pillai who was popularly known as the KappalOttiyaTamilan.
• He was involved in the Swadeshi Steam Navigation Company and when Chidambaram Pillai was incarcerated and put in the Coimbatore prison, CKS fought with the authorities and brought to light the sufferings endured by him.
• A grateful V.O.C Pillai named his third son as Subramaniam and his daughter as Meenakshi after the patriotic CKS couple.
• K.S used patriotic songs to carry out his propaganda during those days. He was always enamoured by the magnetic speeches of Bipin Chandra Pal.
• His wife Meenakshi was very supportive and stood shoulder to shoulder with him in the Independence struggle.