{"id":85191,"date":"2026-02-02T12:35:01","date_gmt":"2026-02-02T07:05:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=85191"},"modified":"2026-02-02T12:35:01","modified_gmt":"2026-02-02T07:05:01","slug":"pasumpon-muthuramalinga-thevar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/pasumpon-muthuramalinga-thevar\/","title":{"rendered":"Pasumpon Muthuramalinga Thevar, Early Life, Role in Freedom Struggle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Pasumpon Muthuramalinga Thevar<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> was a revered Indian freedom fighter, socialist leader, and politician from Tamil Nadu, often called the <\/span><b>\u201cTilak of the South\u201d<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><strong>Pasumpon Muthuramalinga Early Life<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Pasumpon Muthuramalinga was born on 30 October 1908 in Pasumpon, Ramnad District.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">He belonged to the Thevar community.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">He lived as a sadhu and was known for his simplicity.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><strong>Pasumpon Muthuramalinga Role in Freedom Struggle\u00a0<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Pasumpon Muthuramalinga was a <\/span><b>staunch nationalist<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> who <\/span><b>advocated militant nationalism<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> against colonial rule in India.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">He actively participated in the <a href=\"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/upsc-exam\/quit-india-movement\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Quit India Movement<\/strong><\/a>.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">He played a key role in getting the <\/span><b>Criminal Tribes Act (CTA)<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> repealed in 1948 which was a discriminatory British legislation that branded certain communities as &#8220;criminals&#8221; by birth.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">He served as the <\/span><b>secretary of the Harijan Sevak Sangh<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> in Ramnad district and fought for the upliftment of marginalized communities and against untouchability.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">He was also <\/span><b>associated with the Temple Entry movement.<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> He played an important role in allowing Dalits to enter the Meenakshi Temple in Madurai alongside A. Vaidyanatha Iyer.\u200b<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">He supported the Tamil culture and dignity but did not see it as separate from India. He even <\/span><b>wanted Hindustani as the national language<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> but with Roman script.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><strong>Pasumpon Muthuramalinga Thevar and Subhash Chandra Bose\u00a0<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Pasumpon Muthuramalinga was a <\/span><b>close ally of Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. He attended the Tripuri session of the Indian National Congress in 1939 and mobilised all south India votes for Bose. He <\/span><b>left <a href=\"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/upsc-exam\/foundation-of-indian-national-congress\/\" target=\"_blank\">Indian National Congress<\/a> when Bose was forced to resign due to the lack of support from the Congress Working Committee <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">and became a <\/span><b>founding member of the All India Forward Bloc (AIFB) in Tamil Nadu.\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">He was instrumental in recruiting thousands of Tamil youth for Bose\u2019s Indian National Army (INA) during the struggle for independence.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pasumpon Muthuramalinga Thevar was a Tamil Nadu freedom fighter and socialist leader, known as the Tilak of the South, who played a key role in Quit India and Dalit upliftment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":85204,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[786],"tags":[5061],"class_list":{"0":"post-85191","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-general-studies","8":"tag-pasumpon-muthuramalinga-thevar","9":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85191","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/25"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=85191"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85191\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":85465,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85191\/revisions\/85465"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/85204"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}