Kumaraswamy s/o Duraisamy Pillay (11 March 1906 – 29 May 1972) was a

Hindu Hindus (; ) are people who religiously adhere to Hinduism.Jeffery D. Long (2007), A Vision for Hinduism, IB Tauris, , pages 35–37 Historically, the term has also been used as a geographical, cultural, and later religious identifier for ...

reformer and

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community leader in Indonesia. He started the Deli Hindu Sabah, the Indian Boy Scout Association and many other projects benefitting the Hindu Tamil communities of

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. He died in May 1972 in Medan.Indian Communities in Southeast Asia
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*A Mani, Kernial Singh Sandhu. ''Indian Communities in Southeast Asia''. Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, 2006. 1906 births 1979 deaths 20th-century Hindu religious leaders Hindu revivalists Indonesian Hindu religious leaders Malaysian emigrants to Indonesia Indonesian people of Indian descent Indonesian people of Tamil descent People from Medan {{hindu-bio-stub