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T. Rattinasami Nadar

Indian founder of Nadar Mahajana Sangam

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionDec 15, 2024
Entity authorityQ16919178 ↗
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Rao Bahadur T. Rattinasami Nadar was the founder of Nadar Mahajana Sangam. He founded the organisation with a number of leaders from Nadar community under the presidency of his uncle in 1910. The Sangam was founded to extend demands for membership in the Madras Legislative Council.

Rattinasami Nadar died one year after the founding of the Sangam.

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“T. Rattinasami Nadar” enters the record as indian founder of Nadar Mahajana Sangam. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Rattinasami, Nadar and Indian can confirm, complicate or overturn.

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This entry incorporates text from “T. Rattinasami Nadar” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.