Perumal Varadarajulu Naidu (Aged 70) known as P. Varadarajulu born on 4 June 1887, Rasipuram, TamilNadu, India. He was an Indian physician, politician, journalist, and independence activist. He was the founder of The Indian Express, a major English-language daily, in 1932 in Madras. He was known for being “a distinguished labor leader, an eminent journalist, an ardent champion of the causes of handloom weavers, small-scale and cottage industries, and a spirited advocate of the interests of politically and socially disadvantaged sections of society.”
Varadarajulu Naidu joined the Indian National Congress at an early age and gave up his medical practice in 1917 to participate in the Indian Home Rule Movement. He was the President of the Tamil Nadu Congress Committee during the Cheranmahadevi school controversy. Along with Periyar and Kalyanasundara Mudaliar, he opposed the practice of separate dining for Brahman and non-Brahman students in Shermadevi Gurukulam, a national school run by V.V.S. Aiyar. The issue was brought to the notice of Gandhi, and Aiyar later resigned.
When the Tamil Nadu Congress Committee met in April 1925 to discuss the issue, the recommendation of C. Rajagopalachari and Rajan was swept aside. Instead, the resolution that nationalist parties should not observe gradations of merit based on birth, moved by Ramanathan, was passed. Rajagopalachari and six of his associates resigned from TNCC, citing that caste prejudices could not be overcome by coercion. However, Varadarajulu Naidu stayed on in the Congress even as Periyar left the party.
Varadarajulu Naidu started the weekly Tamil newspaper Tamil Nadu in 1925. In 1931, he started The Indian Express but had to sell off the newspaper within a year due to financial difficulties. He passed away on July 23, 1957.
P. Varadarajulu
(1887 – 1957) – (Tamilnadu)
Perumal Varadarajulu Naidu (Aged 70) known as P. Varadarajulu born on 4 June 1887, Rasipuram, TamilNadu, India. He was an Indian physician, politician, journalist, and independence activist. He was the founder of The Indian Express, a major English-language daily, in 1932 in Madras. He was known for being “a distinguished labor leader, an eminent journalist, an ardent champion of the causes of handloom weavers, small-scale and cottage industries, and a spirited advocate of the interests of politically and socially disadvantaged sections of society.”
Varadarajulu Naidu joined the Indian National Congress at an early age and gave up his medical practice in 1917 to participate in the Indian Home Rule Movement. He was the President of the Tamil Nadu Congress Committee during the Cheranmahadevi school controversy. Along with Periyar and Kalyanasundara Mudaliar, he opposed the practice of separate dining for Brahman and non-Brahman students in Shermadevi Gurukulam, a national school run by V.V.S. Aiyar. The issue was brought to the notice of Gandhi, and Aiyar later resigned.
When the Tamil Nadu Congress Committee met in April 1925 to discuss the issue, the recommendation of C. Rajagopalachari and Rajan was swept aside. Instead, the resolution that nationalist parties should not observe gradations of merit based on birth, moved by Ramanathan, was passed. Rajagopalachari and six of his associates resigned from TNCC, citing that caste prejudices could not be overcome by coercion. However, Varadarajulu Naidu stayed on in the Congress even as Periyar left the party.
Varadarajulu Naidu started the weekly Tamil newspaper Tamil Nadu in 1925. In 1931, he started The Indian Express but had to sell off the newspaper within a year due to financial difficulties. He passed away on July 23, 1957.
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