Nemam Natesan

  Please corelate these photocopies of the documents with the text in the previous chapters. These are added only to reinforce that the events are not fictional but real during Natesan's service in the Revenue Department of the Madras Presidency under the British. What the Collector or the RDO said or did was the law!  Appendix C : Appointment as Typist /Clerk for land acquisition to Special Deputy Collector's office  Appendix D and E  Natesan's Petition  against his ousting. and favorable  recommendation by  Special Deputy Collector   Appendix F   Rejection of his appeal  EB Gobbald ICS,  the Collector refuses to rescind the order ousting Natesan on 12 December 1933 on his Petition dated 5 Dec 1933.  Appendix G and H  Natesan petitions the Madras Presidency Service Commission for justice  EB Gobbald ICS   Collector of Trichiniopoly appointing the ousted Natesan as Typist Clerk in the Office of the...

  Loyal and Obedient Servant of the Raj 1932 -40 On 04 November, he reported for duty producing his credentials including a letter from his previous employer Mr. V K Abdul Kader greatly appreciating his work and how he was reluctant to forgo his services.   He was interviewed by     the British Revenue Divisional Officer.   While Sub collectors were Indian Civil service officers, the Revenue Divisional Officers belonged to the Provincial or State Service. Though both may be British in many places, Sub collectors were authorized stenographers and Personal assistants while the RDOs were not!     Noticing that he was qualified in shorthand though appointed only as a typist, he dictated a long memo to test his proficiency and asked him to put up a draft typed letter in about an hour!   Natesan typed the first draft in about fifteen minutes and finding a few words not appropriate corrected them on his own and typed an improved draft. His idea wa...

  To Penang and back The year 1927!   With a certificate of proficiency in Shorthand and Type writing and his School Leaving Certificate as his educational credentials, Natesan was about to embark on his journey to Penang to take up his job with M/S Abdul Kader and Sons.  He recollected the story of Swadeshi Shipping Company he had read about during his school days! In the early 20th century, the British India Steam Navigation Company (BISNC) had a monopoly over trade in the Indian Ocean region.  Formed in 1856, it was one of the largest companies in the British mercantile marine.  In the early twentieth Century, the merchants of Tuticorin (Thoothukudi) decided to break this monopoly as they were main users of merchant ships for import and exports of goods. . They hired a ship from the Shawline Steam Company to run between Tuticorin and Colombo, the capital of Ceylon. After the intervention of the British Government in India, the hired company withdrew the ...

  Natesan : Early Life   Subbier had constructed a fairly huge house opposite NVN mansion and by end of 1880. He had a large family of six children three sons and three daughters. The eldest was a son Kalyana Sundaram born in 1890 followed by daughter Gyana a couple of years later. Duraisamy, Kasi and Lakshmi were born between 1894    and 1906.   1908! Great events were happening in India and in South Africa. Many mile stone events connected with the Indian freedom struggle marked that year. How these events are going to have a direct bearing on the life of Subbier’s yet to be born child is what this book is about!          Mohandas Gandhi was making waves in the political circles of India and Great Britain to protect the interest Indians who came there as indentured labour. Gandhi’s effort bore no fruit even after his visits to London twice for pleading with the Prime Minister and other political leaders for scrapping ...