Aiyappan Pillai Madhavan Nair (1905–1990), also known as Nair- san, was closely involved with

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in the

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History

Nair did his basic schooling in southern India. Nair had to leave Kerala at 18 as he led protests against some administrative steps taken by Education authorities in Travancore. At that time he had also spoken against the British. He studied engineering in Japan at

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. After a short stint as an engineer he entered India's Freedom Struggle in his own individual capacity and soon teamed up with

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. When Japan joined the

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, Nair helped in setting up the

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in Japan under

and later he and Rashbehari Bose advised Japan Government to bring Subhas Chandra Bose to Japan. When Subhas came he helped him in various ways. In 1949, Nair founded an Indian restaurant in

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, Tokyo. He wrote his Autobiography in 1982. It is called ''An Indian freedom fighter in Japan: Memoirs of A.M. Nair'' (1982) Sole distributorship, Ashok Uma Publications　

Last years

Nair was given the

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(Kun zuihosho) by Emperor

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in November 1984. He died on 22 April 1990.

Film

A film titled '' Nair-san'' starring

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and

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has been planned based on his life, directed by

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Autobiography

*''An Indian freedom fighter in Japan: Memoirs of A.M. Nair'' (1982) Sole distributorship, Ashok Uma Publications　

References

External links

GINZA NAIR'S RESTAURANT, founded by A. M. Nair in 1949
{{DEFAULTSORT:Nair, A. M. 1905 births 1990 deaths Indian expatriates in Japan Kyoto University alumni People from Thiruvananthapuram Indian independence activists from Kerala Indian revolutionaries