Vo chidambaram pillai biography of albert

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    V. O. Chidambaram Pillai

    Indian freedom fighter, first Indian helmsman and former leader of INC

    Vallinayagam Olaganathan Chidambaram Pillai (5 September 1872 - 18 November 1936) was an Indian freedom fighter, lawyer, businessman and politician.

    He founded the Swadeshi Steam Navigation Company in 1906 to compete against the monopoly of the British India Steam Navigation Company (BISNC).[1][2][3] He launched the first indigenous Indian shipping service between Tuticorin in British India and Colombo in Ceylon.

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    • Once a member of the Indian National Congress, he was later charged with sedition by the British government and sentenced to life imprisonment, and his barrister license was revoked. He is known by the epithet Kappalottiya Tamizhan ("Tamil helmsman").

    Tuticorin Port Trust, one of India's thirteen major ports, is named after him.

    Early life

    V. O. Chidambaram Pillai was born in Ottapidaram, Tirunelveli District to Olaganathan Pillai and P