TOP POLITICAL PERSON U. Muthuramalingam Thevar

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முத்துராமலிங்க தேவர் was born on 30 October 1908 in

பசும்பொன்,

ராம்நாட் District. From 1910, he was in the custody of his maternal grandmother Parvathiammal in the neighboring village of கல்லுப்பட்டி. பார்வதியம்மாள் was furious with முத்துராமலிங்க தேவர் father for having taken two new wives shortly after the death of his second wife.^{[citation needed]}

During his youth, முத்துராமலிங்க தேவர் was aided by குழந்தைசாமி பிள்ளை, a close family friend of his father.

பிள்ளை took responsibility for arranging முத்துராமலிங்க தேவர் schooling. First he was given private பயிற்சி and in June 1917 he began attending classes at an elementary school run by American missionaries in கமுதி. Later he joined the

பசுமலை High School (near திருப்பரங்குன்றம்) and then he shifted to the Union Christian High School in Madurai.^{[citation needed]}

முத்துராமலிங்க தேவர் did not complete his studies. The following year, he also missed his chance to attend the final examinations, as he returned to பசும்பொன் to fight a legal battle over issues of inheritance of family property. The case lingered and was not settled until 1927, when the court ruled in முத்துராமலிங்க தேவர் favor.^{[citation needed]}

முத்துராமலிங்க தேவர் father died on 6 June 1939.^[2]

Opposition to Criminal Tribes Act,

One issue, particularly impacted on தேவர் தான் political career. The Criminal Tribes Act (CTA) had been enacted in 1920 by the government of the Madras Presidency and was subsequently implemented in a piecemeal fashion. தேவர் திரட்டினார் resistance to it, touring villages in the affected areas and leading protest rallies for the rights of the individuals registered under it. In 1929, the மறவர்கள் of 19 villages in அப்பநாடு were forced to register, under the CTA. தேவர் led a massive campaign in the villages, urging the people to defy it. The authorities partially withdrew, and reduced the number of CTA registrations in the concerned areas from around 2000 to 341.

1934, தேவர் ஏற்பாடு செய்தார் a convention at அபிராமம், which urged the authorities to repeal the CTA. A committee consisting of தேவர், P. Varadarajulu நாயுடு, பெருமாள் தேவர், சசிவர்ணா தேவர் and நவநீதகிருஷ்ணா தேவர் was appointed by the convention to carry on the efforts to persuade the government to revoke the Act.

The CTA was, however, not ரத்து செய்யப்பட்டது but instead its implementation was widened. தேவர் again led agitations and awareness-raising campaigns against the Act. At the நேரம் the Justice Party was governing the Madras Presidency, and their refusal to revoke the law created a strong animosity on தேவர் behalf towards that party.^[3]

1936 District Board election

Infuriated by the attitude of the Justice Party government towards the CTA, தேவர் concluded that the communities affected by the Act had to be அணிதிரட்டப்பட்டது by the Congress. After returning from a trip to Burma in 1936, he began to work to strengthen the Congress in the southern areas of the Presidency. He contested the election to the

ராம்நாட் District Board from the முதுகுளத்தூர் constituency, defeating his Justice Party opponent. This was தேவர் first experience of being a candidate in an election.

1937 provincial election

Ahead of the 1937 elections to the assembly of the Madras Presidency, தேவர் enlisted youths from the முக்குலத்தோர் communities to work for the Congress. His activities created கவலைகள் the Justice Party government, which forbade him to travel வெளியே of the ராம்நாட் district and to make speeches in public