S. Muthiah Mudaliar
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Muthiah Mudaliar CIE |
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| Minister of Education and Excise (Madras Presidency) | |
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In office March 16, 1928 – October 27, 1930 |
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| Premier | P. Subbarayan |
| Governor |
George Goschen, 2nd Viscount Goschen, Sir Norman Marjoribanks (acting) |
| Preceded by | A. Ranganatha Mudaliar |
| Succeeded by | S. Kumaraswami Reddiar |
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| Born | 1883 Kumbakonam, Madras Presidency |
| Died | July 15, 1953 |
| Nationality | Indian |
| Political party | Justice Party, Indian National Congress (Swarajya Party) |
| Alma mater | Government College, Kumbakonam, Law College, Madras |
| Occupation | legislator |
| Profession | lawyer |
S. Muthiah Mudaliar CIE (1883 - July 15, 1953) was an Indian politician and legislator of the Justice Party and later, the Swarajya Party and an independent minister in the Madras Presidency. He is largely remembered for introducing the Communal Government Order implementing reservations in the Presidency.
Muthiah Mudaliar was born in Kumbakonam. He studied and graduated in law and commenced practice as a lawyer. He joined the Justice Party and later, the Swarajya Party and served as legislator from 1923 to 1930. From 1928 to 1930, he served as the Minister of Education and Excise in P. Subbarayan's government. He returned to the Justice Party in the late twenties and participated in the Madras Anti-Hindi agitations of 1938.
Muthiah Mudaliar was a close friend and associate of E. V. Ramasami Naicker.
Muthiah Mudaliar was born in Kumbakonam, Madras Presidency in the year 1883 in a Thondaimandala Mudaliar family. Muthiah graduated from Government College, Kumbakonam and Law College, Madras and practised as a lawyer at the Madras High Court before joining the Justice Party.
In 1923, Muthiah left the Justice Party and joined the Swarajya Party. He participated in the 1923 assembly elections and was elected to the Madras Legislative Council. He was returned to the assembly in the 1926 elections but refused a ministry in accordance with the policies of the Swarajya Party not to participate in the dyarchy. However, he did not like the secret support that his colleagues in the Swarajya Party gave to the P. Subbarayan government. He felt that the assumption of a stance supportive to a government elected under dyarchy was an endorsement of dyarchy itself. He attended the Bombay session of the All India Congress Committee (AICC), at which he raised the issue. He recommended the creation of a committee to investigate this rebellious deeds of the Madras members of the Swarajya Party. However, the committee tabled a report the very next day announcing that the Madras members were not guilty of any anti-party activities. Muthiah dissented with the committee and left the Swarajya Party.
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