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On the third day of the Madras session, Mudaliar moved an amendment suggesting that the question of establishing a Public
Service Commission be postponed to the next session. Mudaliar also participated in the fifth session of the Indian National Congress held in 1889. He participated in subsequent
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In 1884, Mudaliar started a choultry near
Chennai Central railway station. This Choultry survived till the 1960s, later taken over by AG &OT of Madras High Court. The charities remain active. The Women and Children hospital at Kozhikode was established in 1903 by Raja Sir Ramaswamy Mudaliar, in
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Gentleman, while we are humbly praying out
Government to grant us some small representative element in the Government, we have actually got full-blown representative institutions flourishing in this country under our very noses. I do not know whether you are aware how they are flourishing in
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Mudaliar was known for his philanthropic activities in the Madras
Presidency. He established various choultries in memory of his first wife, Ranee Thyal Nayagi Ammal, as well as hospitals in Madras, Royapuram, Thirukazhgukundram, Cuddalore, and Kanchipuram. He built a child-care hospital in
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Mudaliar's birthday is celebrated each year through a public function at his choultry opposite
Central Railway station . The function is organised by Ramaswamy Mudaliar charities which are managed by AGOT of Madras High Court and Co-Trustee S.V.R.Ramprasad, great-grandson of Mudaliar.
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Mudaliar participated in the third session of the Indian
National Congress held at Madras in 1887. He was a part of the welcoming committee. A resolution was moved demanding more representation for Indians in the administration. Mudaliar endorsed the resolution and spoke:
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Pondicherry and other places which are subject to the French government. England will not as yet allow us the smallest modicum of representative institutions, but in
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Mudaliar was associated with the Indian
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The coronation was postponed when the king fell ill, and
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sessions of the Indian
National Congress. In the 1894 Congress, he proposed Alfred Webb for the presidency of the Congress and he was duly elected.
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Mudaliar died in 1911 at the age of 71 and was buried at his private burial ground at Kilpauk Garden Road Kilpauk,
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family from Pondicherry. His father had been declared insolvent and moved to Madras in order to escape creditors.
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Cuddalore which is presently being maintained by the municipality.
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623:The India List and India Office List
121:Trustee of Pachaiyappa's Trust Board
621:Great Britain India Office (1905).
198:Raja Sir Savalai Ramaswami Mudaliar
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686:Amvika Charan Mazumdar (1917).
448:"Ramaswamy Mudaliar remembered"
313:Ramaswami Mudaliar was made a
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329:personal distinction
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680:References
477:19 January
368:"Trustees"
256:and Queen
254:Edward VII
223:Sengunthar
217:Early life
171:1911-03-06
152:1840-10-13
509:The Times
494:The Times
453:The Hindu
422:The Hindu
258:Alexandra
184:Spouse(s)
132:1895-1906
128:In office
112:In office
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230:dubash
178:Madras
354:Notes
289:Death
207:ubash
25:Raja
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324:Raja
165:Died
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66:1877
35:KCIE
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