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T. V. Sundaram Iyengar

Indian businessman (1877–1955)

Thirukkurungudi Vengaram Sundram Iyengar (22 March 1877 – 28 April 1955) was an Indian industrialist and automobile pioneer. He started his career as a pinewood dealer and later in 1911, he founded T. V. Sundram Iyengar & Sons, a bus company which later diversified into automobile production and emerged as the parent company of the TVS Group, one of India's biggest business conglomerates.2

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Born Mar 22, 1877, died Apr 28, 1955.1

About

With his humble beginning as a lawyer, he grew into one of the most successful industrialists of his time. The flagship company of the group is TVS Motors established by his son T. S. Srinivasan. He laid foundation for road transport industry in the erstwhile Madras Presidency through the state's first bus service. The TVS group he thus started now extends from motor industry, auto services to financial services.

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Early life and education

T. V. Sundram Iyengar was born in a Iyengar Tamil Brahmin family in early 1877 in Thirukkurungudi, in the state of Tamil Nadu in India. Sundram Iyengar started his career as a lawyer. As per his father's wishes, he then moved to work for the Indian Railways and later in a bank.

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Career

Occupation: businessperson.5

Personal life

  • BornMar 22, 1877, Tirunelveli6
  • DiedApr 28, 1955, Kodaikanal7
  • CitizenshipBritish Raj, Dominion of India, India8

T. V. Sundram Iyengar married Lakshmi Ammal and they had eight children - five sons and three daughters. Their son T. S. Doraiswamy, died at an early age. T. V. Sundram Iyengar accepted his daughter T. S. Soundaram, then a teenage widow who remarried G. Ramachandran (social reformer), under the compulsion of Mahatma Gandhi. T. S. Soundaram then involved herself in the Indian independence movement along with Gandhi. She was later honoured with a postal stamp released in her honour.

Apart from being a successful business man, T. V. Sundram Iyengar was a patron of the arts. He was praised by C. Rajagopalachari, a senior statesmen and governor general of India at that time, for his gesture of retiring and handing over the trade to his sons.

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