Ramaswami Ramanathan Chettiar (30 September 1913 – 12 December 1995) better known as Mayor Ramanathan Chettiar was an Indian Industrialist, politician and bureaucrat who served as

Mayor of Madras The city of Chennai in Tamil Nadu, India is administered by the Corporation of Chennai headed by a Mayor. The Mayor is the first citizen of the city. The person is the chief of the Chennai Municipal Corporation. The Chennai Municipal Corporation ...

and member of

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Early life

Ramanathan Chettiar was born to philanthropist

Diwan Bahadur Dewan Bahadur or Diwan Bahadur was a title of honour awarded during British rule in India. It was awarded to individuals who had performed faithful service or acts of public welfare to the nation. From 1911 the title was accompanied by a special T ...

Ramaswami Chettiar Diwan Bahadur Satappa Ramanatha Muttaiya Ramaswami Chettiar (1872 – 5 November 1918) was an Indian businessman from what is now the state of Tamil Nadu. Early life Ramaswami Chettiar was born in 1872 to Muttaiya or Muthiah Chettiar of Chid ...

on 30 September 1913. Ramaswami Chettiar was the elder brother of

Annamalai Chettiar ''Diwan Bahadur'' Sir Satappa Ramanatha Muttaiya Annamalai Chettiar, Raja of Chettinad KCSI (30 September 1881 – 15 June 1948) was an Indian industrialist, banker, educationist and philanthropist from Tamil Nadu. He is the founder of Annama ...

Politics

Ramanathan Chettiar was a member of the

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and played an active role in the

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. He served as a

councillor A councillor is an elected representative for a local government council in some countries. Canada Due to the control that the provinces have over their municipal governments, terms that councillors serve vary from province to province. Unl ...

in the Corporation of Madras from 1948 to 1952. In 1949 he was selected

Sheriff of Madras The Sheriff of Madras was an apolitical titular position of authority bestowed for one year on a prominent citizen of Madras. The post was abolished in 1998. The position of Sheriff of Madras was created in the Madras Charter of 1726 which came ...

and in 1950 was elected

, serving in both cases for a year. In the 1957 Lok Sabha elections, Ramanathan Chettiar was elected to the Indian parliament from the Pudukkottai Lok Sabha constituency. He was again elected for the period 1962–1967, this time from the Karur constituency.

Bureaucracy

Ramanathan Chettiar was the first director of the

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. He also served as a member of the executive committee of the Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and as chairman of the Indian Handicrafts Development Corporation.

Death

Ramanatha Chettiar died on 12 December 1995 at the age of 82. The Mayor Ramanathan Hall and M. R. C. Nagar in

Raja Annamalaipuram Raja Annamalaipuram, known in short as R. A. Puram, is a neighbourhood of Chennai, India. Named after banker and philanthropist, S. Rm. M. Annamalai Chettiar who owned most of the property at one time, Raja Annamalaipuram extends along the north ...

, Chennai, are named after him.

Notes

{{DEFAULTSORT:Chettiar, R. Ramanathan 1913 births 1995 deaths Sheriffs of Madras Mayors of Chennai India MPs 1957–1962 India MPs 1962–1967 Lok Sabha members from Tamil Nadu People from Karur district People from Pudukkottai district