Subramaniya Siva

Subramaniya Siva (4 October 1884 – 23 July 1925) was an Indian independence activist, and writer. He was a supporter of Tanittamil Iyakkam, a linguistic purism movement, that advocated to get rid of loan words from the Tamil language.

Life Subramaniya Siva was born on 4 October 1884 into a Tamil Brahmin family in Batlagundu, Madurai District, Madras Presidency. He joined the Indian independence movement in the early 1900s. He considered himself as a sanyasi, and equated India's freedom from the British colonial rule with spiritual liberation. He worked along with other Tamil independence activists such as Subramania Bharati and V. O. Chidambaram. In 1908, he was arrested by the British and sent to jail. While serving his prison term, he was afflicted by leprosy.