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C. Natesa Mudaliar, also known as Natesan, was a politician and activist of the Dravidian Movement from the Indian state of
Tamil Nadu.

He was one of the founders of the Justice Party along with Theagaroya Chetty and Dr. T. M. Nair.
He was regarded as the "heart" of the Justice Party.

Early Life
Natesa Mudaliar was born in a Tamil family of Triplicane, Madras in 1875.
He had his early schooling in Madras and graduated from Presidency College, Chennai and Madras Medical College before
practising as a doctor.

Reuniting
At the time in 1912, there were two groups in the Madras Corporation Council.
The Non-Brahmin group was led by the legendary Sir Pitti Theagaroya Chetti.
The other group was led by T.M. Nair.
The two leaders often clashed at Council meetings even though both were non-Brahmins.
Natesa Mudaliar realised that if these two leaders could be brought together it would give the Non-Brahmin movement a fast
forward push.
Thus, Natesa Mudaliar was able to reconcile their differences.

Dravidian Movement
The Madras Non-Brahmin Association was formed in 1909 by two lawyers from Madras city, P. Subramanyam and M.
Purushotham Naidu.
Theagaraya Chetty did not involve himself in the movement until 1912, when the Madras United League was formed.
It was formed by disaffected non-Brahmin members of the bureaucracy like Saravana Pillai, G. Veerasamy Naidu,
Doraiswami Naidu and S. Narayanaswamy Naidu with C. Natesa Mudaliar as its Secretary.
Later in 1912 itself (October), Madras United league was renamed as Madras Dravidian Association.
It was the rst time the word Dravidian was used for a political entity.
Panaganti Ramarayaningar, later the Raja of Panagal was elected its President.
As a part of its programme, the Madras Dravidian Association conducted a hostel called "Dravidian Home"
It was for the bene t of non-Brahmin students who did not have hostel privileges due to caste-based discrimination.
In 1914, Natesan ran such a Dravidian hostel in Triplicane, Madras.
There was a meeting held in Madras in November 1916 by a group of about thirty people, including Theagaraya Chetti and
Dr. T. M. Nair.
They established the South Indian People's Association (SIPA) to publish English, Tamil and Telugu newspapers to publicise
grievances of non-Brahmins.
Theagarya Chetty became the secretary of SIPA.
The newspaper was named Justice and started publishing from 26 February 1917 onwards.
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Dr. T. M. Nair was its rst Editor.

The meeting also formed the "South Indian Liberal Federation" (SILF) as a political association.
Later, the association came to be popularly called the "Justice Party" due to the publication of the Justice Magazine.

Theagarya served as the rst President of the federation from 1917 till his death in 1925.
The Justice Party sought a remedy by the earliest adoption of reservation and secularisation by law.
Along with the Justice Party, EVR Periyar's Self Respect Movement, started in 1925, joined hands to form the Dravida
Kazhagam (DK) which served the anti-Brahmin, anti-North Indian and anti-Congress out ts.

Political Life
Natesa Mudaliar sent lengthy telegrams on the Anti Brahmin Movement to the London newspapers at great cost.
The Times London published that in the 'Letters to the Editor' verbatim, creating quite a stir in Britain and India.
In 1920, the Doctor moved a resolution in the Madras Corporation Council that what were called the Depressed Classes and
usually called Panchamas should be called Adi Dravidas.
Natesa Mudaliar, along with Theagaroya Chetty, was instrumental in negotiating an end to the Buckingham and Carnatic
Mills strike of 1921, organized by V. Kalyanasundaram, populary known as Thiru Vi.Ka.
India's rst labour union, the Madras Labour Union (MLU) was formed at Buckingham and Carnatic Mills by B. P. Wadia and
V. Kalyanasundaram Mudaliar on 27 April 1918.
Natesan did not participate in the rst general elections in Madras Presidency held in 1920.
However, in the 1923 assembly elections, Natesan was elected to the Madras Legislative Council.
He was twice elected to the Madras Legislative Assembly during 1923-26 and 1933-37.
At the Non-Brahmin confederation in Coimbatore in 1927, he led the split of the Justice Party into two camps: Ministerialists
and Constitutionalists.
He functioned as the leader of the Constitutionalists till the two groups merged.
In 1929, Natesan presided over the Justice Party conference in which a resolution was passed facilitating the admission of
Brahmins in the party.

Last stage
Natesan was expected to contest in the 1937 elections to the legislative assembly of Madras.
But he died all of a sudden in February 1937 at the age of 62.

Legacy
Natesa Mudaliar lived for his ideals and social reforms and in his honour a road in Triplicane was named after him.
A park in Thyagaroya Nagar is also named after Natesa Mudaliar.

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K.M. Balasubramaniam, a writer and supporter of the Dravidian Movement, compared him to Mahatma Gandhi.
His oft repeated phrase was: "The Justice Party is the justest Party, Give that party your support hearty."

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