Personalities

V.O.Chidambaram Pillai

Personal attributes	Details
Original Name	Subbayya
Born	11.12.1882
Birth Place	Ettayapuram , Thoothukudi District
Nationality	Indian
Other Names	Bharathiyar, Sakthidasan
Parents	Chennasami Subramaniya Iyear and Lakkumi Ammal (Lakshmi)
Spouse	Chellammal
Influenced	Bharathidasan
Political Movement	Indian independence Movement
Known for	1. His poems 2. His role in Indian independence
Died	11.09.1921 Chennai

He was a prominent lawyer and a trade union leader. He gets credit for launching the “the first indigenous Indian shipping service” between Tuticorin and Colombo with the “Swedeshi Steam Navigation Company competing against British ships” He is also as “Kappal Ottia Tamilan.



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