S. Kumaraswami Reddiar

Sir
Subbarayalu Kumaraswami Reddiar
Minister of Education and Excise (Madras Presidency)
In office
October 27, 1930  October 10, 1936
Premier B. Munuswamy Naidu,
P. T. Rajan,
Ramakrishna Ranga Rao of Bobbili
Governor George Frederick Stanley
Preceded by S. Muthiah Mudaliar
Succeeded by M. A. Muthiah Chettiar

Diwan Bahadur Sir Subbarayalu Kumaraswami Reddiar (23 April 1876 - after 1937) was an Indian lawyer and politician who served as a minister in Madras Presidency.

Early life

Kumaraswami Reddiar was born in Tinnevely on 23 April 1876. He was educated at the Hindu College, Tinnevely and graduated from Presidency College, Madras. He studied law at Madras Law College and practised law. He served as Government Pleader and Public Prosecutor of Tinnevely till September 1926 before joining the Justice Party in the late 1920s.

Politics

Kumaraswami Reddiar was elected to the Madras Legislative Council on a Justice Party ticket in 1930.

Kumaraswami Reddiar resigned his ministry post due to ill-health in 1936 and he was replaced with Muthiah Chettiar in a move to wipe out differences in the party.[1]

He was knighted in the 1937 Coronation Honours list.[2]

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