N. M. R. Subbaraman

N.M.R. Subbaraman (14 August 1905 - 25 January 1983) was an Indian freedom fighter and politician from Tamil Nadu. He was the member of Parliament from the Madurai (1962 - 1967). He also referred as Madurai Gandhi for his Gandhian principles.

Biography

Subbaraman was born on 14 August 1905 in a wealthy Saurashtra family of Naatamai Malli Rayalu Iyer and Kaveri Ammal in Madurai, Madras Presidency, British India. He studied at Sourashtra High School, Madurai and Visva-Bharati University, Santiniketan. He joined the Indian National Congress and participated in Indian independence movement at a young age. He was imprisoned for five years during the independence movement along with his wife Parvatavardhani. Mahatma Gandhi stayed at his bungalow during a visit to Madurai. As a member of the Harijan Sevak Sangh, a organisation founded by Gandhi to remove untouchability from the Indian society, he worked for the upliftment of the depressed classes. He along with A. Vaidyanatha Iyer organised a Temple entry conference and helped the people of the depressed classes to enter Meenakshi Amman Temple. He involved in the Bhoodan movement and donated his 100 acre of land to the movement. He contributed to establish the first Gandhi Memorial Museum, Madurai.

He won the 1937 and 1946 elections and served as the state legislator in the Madras Presidency. He elected as the member of Parliament in the 1962 Lok Sabha election from Madurai.

He died on 25 January 1983 in Madurai. In 2006, to commemorate his 100th birthday, Government of India issued a stamp with his image. In 2007, a women college named after him.