In this session at The Hindu Lit Fest 2024, historian Ramachandra Guha talks to A.R. Venkatachalapathy, Professor at the Madras Institute of Development Studies, Chennai, about the life and the motivations of V.O. Chidambaram Pillai.
Freedom fighter V.O. Chidambaram Pillai took on the might of the British in the early 20th century when he started a shipping company under colonial rule. Inspired by Bal Gangadhar Tilak, he started the Swadeshi Steam Navigation Company in 1906 in a bid to promote indigenous enterprise. He led the Swadeshi movement in Tuticorin. He was charged with sedition by the British government and was sentenced to double life imprisonment.
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