N. Sivaraj

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{{Infobox Officeholder
| name = N. Sivaraj
| order = [[Member of Parliament, Lok Sabha]]
| constituency = [[Chengalpattu (Lok Sabha constituency)|Chengalpattu]]
| term_start = 1957
| term_end = 1961
| successor = A. Krishnaswamy
| predecessor = [[O. V. Alagesan]]
| birth_date= {{death date|1892|9|29|df=y}}
| birth_place = [[Kadapa]], [[Madras Presidency]], [[British India]] (now [[Andhra Pradesh]], [[India]])
| death_date = {{death date and age|1964|9|29|1892|9|29|df=y}}
| death_place = [[Chennai]], [[Tamil Nadu]], [[India]]
| nationality = [[India]]n
| party = [[Republican Party of India]]
| otherparty = [[Justice Party (India)]]
| spouse = [[Annai Meenambal Shivaraj]]
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| alma_mater = [[Madras Law College]]
| occupation = Politician, Activist
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[[File:Meenambal Sivaraj SCF women's conference 1945.jpg|thumb|[[Annai Meenambal]] (L), [[Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar]] (C) and Rao Bahadur N. Sivaraj (R) during "The All India SCF women's conference" held at Bombay, on May 6th, 1945]]

[[Rao Bahadur]] '''Namasivayam Sivaraj''' (29 September 1892 – 29 September 1964) was an Indian lawyer, politician and [[Scheduled Caste]] activist from the state of [[Tamil Nadu]].

== Early life and education ==

Sivaraj was born into a Paraiyer family to Namsivayam, an accounts officer, on 29 September 1892 in the town of [[Cuddapah]] in the then [[Madras Presidency]].<ref>{{Cite book|last=Basu|first=Raj Sekhar|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=bo2pb7XH7F0C&q=Sivaraj|title=Nandanar's Children: The Paraiyans' Tryst with Destiny, Tamil Nadu 1850 - 1956|date=2011-02-14|publisher=SAGE Publications|isbn=978-81-321-0514-5|language=en}}</ref> His ancestors were from the town of [[Poonamallee]] near [[Madras]]. N. Sivaraj passed his matriculation in 1907 and did B.A from [[Presidency College, Chennai|Presidency College]], Madras in 1911. In 1915 he graduated as a lawyer from the [[Dr. Ambedkar Government Law College, Chennai|Madras Law College]] and practised as a junior under [[Sir C. P. Ramaswamy Iyer]].<ref name="cpp74">{{cite book|title=Sir C. P. Remembered|author=Shakunthala Jagannathan|isbn=81-87111-27-5|publisher=Vakils, Feffer and Simmons Ltd.|year=1999|pages=74}}</ref> He worked as a lecturer in the Madras Law College for a period of thirteen years.

== Family ==
Sivaraj was married to [[Annai Meenambal]] and had four children.<ref>{{Cite web|date=2017-11-30|title=30 November – Remembering Annai Meenambal Sivaraj – First Dalit Woman President of South India Scheduled Castes Federation (SCF)|url=https://velivada.com/2017/11/30/remembering-annai-meenambal-sivaraj/|access-date=2020-11-27|website=Velivada|language=en-US}}</ref>

== Politics ==

Sivaraj was one of the prominent leaders in Depressed Class Federation. He was one of the founding members of the [[Justice Party (India)|Justice Party]] in 1917 and supported it till 1926.<ref>[https://ambedkarambeth.blogspot.com/2015/03/right-hand-of-drbabasaheb-ambedkar-rao.html Thanthai N. Sivaraj: National Level Leader Who Worked for the Scheduled Classes of India.]</ref> He was mayor in Madras Municipal Corporation in 1945 and served till 1946. He was nominated to the [[Madras Legislative Council]] in 1926 and served as member till 1937. From 1937 to 1945, Sivaraj served as a member of Imperial Legislative Council. He participated in the 1952, 1957 and 1962 Lok Sabha elections and served as the [[Member of Parliament (India)|Member of Parliament]] from [[Chengalpattu (Lok Sabha constituency)|Chengalpattu]] constituency.

He was an active member of Self Respect Movement, Anti-Brahminism movement and Women's Rights movement in Tamil Nadu along with [[Periyar E. V. Ramasamy|Periyar E.V. Ramaswamy]].<ref>{{Cite web|last=गीता|first=V. Geetha वी|date=2017-06-21|title=Ambedkar and Periyar's intellectual comradeship|url=https://www.forwardpress.in/2017/06/ambedkar-and-periyars-intellectual-comradeship/|access-date=2020-11-27|website=Forward Press|language=en-US}}</ref>

All India [[Scheduled Castes Federation]] was a first all India political party exclusively for the Depressed Class founded by [[B. R. Ambedkar]] in a national convention held at Nagpur during 17–20 July 1942. It was presided by Sivaraj and he was elected as its first President.<ref>{{cite web|title=Dr.Ambedkar and All India Scheduled Castes Federation|url=http://mulnivasiorganiser.bamcef.org/?p=257|access-date=15 November 2017}}</ref>

When the [[Republican Party of India]] was founded in 1957, he was again elected as its first president and continued working to establish the organisation until he died in 1964.<ref>{{Cite book|title=Suryaputra Yashwantrao Ambedkar|last=Khobragade|first=Fulchand|publisher=Sanket Prakashan|year=2014|location=Nagpur|pages=20, 21|language=mr}}</ref>

== Notes ==

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== References ==

* {{cite book|title= Dalit Movement in India|pages=331–333|author=Ramacandra Kshirasagara|year=1994|isbn=978-81-85880-43-3|publisher=M. D. Publications}}

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[[Category:1892 births]]
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[[Category:Lok Sabha members from Tamil Nadu]]
[[Category:Members of Central Legislative Assembly of India]]
[[Category:Mayors of Chennai]]
[[Category:2nd Lok Sabha members]]
[[Category:20th-century Indian lawyers]]
[[Category:People from Kadapa district]]
[[Category:Indian Tamil politicians]]
[[Category:Activists from Tamil Nadu]]
[[Category:People from Kanchipuram district]]
[[Category:Republican Party of India politicians]]
[[Category:Ambedkarites]]
[[Category:Scheduled Castes Federation politician]]

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