P. Subbarayan

P. Subbarayan

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P. Subbarayan Profile

  • Name:
  • P. Subbarayan
  • Other Name:
  • Paramasiva Subbarayan
  • Born:
  • September 11, 1889
  • Died:
  • October 6, 1962
  • Spouse:
  • Radhabai Subbarayan

P. Subbarayan Biography

P. Subbarayan was an Indian politician, freedom fighter and diplomat and was the Chief Minister of Madras Presidency. He has also served as Indian ambassador to Indonesia and Union Minister of Transport and Communications in Jawaharlal Nehru's government. He was serving as the governor of Maharashtra when he died in the year 1962.

 

His wife, Radhabai Subbarayan was a politician, women's rights activist and social reformer. His sons too, were famous figures. His elder son, Paramasiva Prabhakar Kumaramangalam was the 7th Chief of Staff of the Indian Army who served during the period (1967–1970) and has been honoured with Padma Vibhushan by Indian government in 1970 for his military service. His younger son Paramasiva Subbarayan was an active politician, and communist theorist who has served as a member of Lok Sabha for Pondicherry from 1971 to 1972. BJP politician and Union Minister Rangarajan Kumaramangalam is his grandson. His daughter Parvathi Krishnan was also a politician belonging to Communist party of India.

 

Subbarayan was born on 11 September 1889 in a zamindar family of Kumaramangalam, Salem district. His education was done at prestigious institutions like Presidency College, Madras, University of Dublin, the University of London and Christ Church, Oxford. In 1922, he was nominated to the Madras Legislative Council. From 4 December 1926 to 27 October 1930 he served as the Chief Minister of Madras Presidency. In 1933 he joined Indian national Congress where he served as the Minister of Law and Education in Rajaji's cabinet and the Minister of Police and Home in Ramaswamy Reddiar's cabinet.

 

He also actively participated in Quit India Movement and got jailed. He was arrested along with other Congress leaders as Sathyamurthy and M. Bakthavatsalam. After Indian Independence, he was a prominent politician of Nehru’s government and served as a cabinet minister. Subbarayan was a member of the First Official Language Commission constituted by Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru on 7 June 1955.

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Updated: February 13, 2014

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