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{{Infobox person<br />
| name = Subramaniya Siva <br />
| image = SubramaniyaSiva.jpg<br />
| caption = Portrait of Subramaniya Siva<br />
| birth_date = 4 October 1884<ref name="Life">{{cite web|url=http://tamilnation.co/hundredtamils/subramaniamsiva.htm|title=Subramania Siva|publisher=tamilnation.co|access-date=19 September 2015}}</ref><br />
| birth_place = [[Batlagundu]] near [[Dindigul]], [[British Raj|British India]]<br />
| death_date = {{death date and age|df=yes|1925|07|23|1884|10|04}}<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-national/tp-tamilnadu/125th-birth-anniversary-of-subramaniya-siva-celebrated/article1356715.ece|title=125th Birth anniversary of Subramaniya Siva celebrated|work=The Hindu|date=15 October 2008}}</ref><br />
| death_place = [[Papparapatti, Dharmapuri|Papparapatti]], [[Madras Presidency]], [[India]]<br />
| nationality = [[India]]n<br />
}}<br />
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'''Subramaniya Siva''' (Tamil: சுப்பிரமணிய சிவா) (4 October 1884 – 23 July 1925) was an Indian freedom fighter, writer and pure Tamil movement activist during the [[Indian independence movement]].<ref name="TN">{{cite web|url=http://dharmapuri.nic.in/personalities.htm|title=Eminent personalities - Dharmapuri district|publisher=Government of Tamil Nadu|access-date=19 September 2015}}</ref><br />
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==Life==<br />
Subramaniya Siva was born in a Brahmin Iyer<ref name="theprint.in">https://theprint.in/theprint-profile/subramaniya-siva-tamil-nationalist-who-fought-for-purity-in-the-language/266635/#:~:text='Pure%20Tamil'&text=Born%20on%204%20October%201884,of%20Tamils%20will%20be%20lost%E2%80%9D.</ref> family at [[Batlagundu]] near [[Dindigul]] in erstwhile [[Madurai district]] of [[Madras presidency]]. He was born to Rajam Iyer. He joined the [[Indian freedom movement]] in 1908.<br />
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In 1908, he was arrested by the British and was the first political prisoner in Madras jail. While serving a prison term, he was afflicted by [[leprosy]] and was shifted to Salem jail. Since leprosy was regarded as a contagious disease, the British authorities forbade him to travel by rail after his release and hence he was forced to travel on foot. He continued to fight for independence and was incarcerated many times until 1922.<ref name="Life"/> He was the author of the journal ''Jnanabhanu'' and books ''Ramanuja Vijayam'' and ''Madhva Vijayam''.<ref name="TN"/><br />
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He eventually succumbed to [[leprosy]] on 23 July 1925.<ref name="Life"/><br />
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==Pure Tamil Movement==<br />
A movement started by Maraimalai Adigal, the Tanittamil (‘pure Tamil’) literary movement intended to rid the Tamil language of non-Tamil words. The movement was supported & propagated by Subramaniya Siva and is one of the most significant of all Tamil revivalist movements organised by nationalists.<br />
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His passion for Tamil was such that he wrote an advertisement which was published in Gnanabhanu as:<br />
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"Five rupees — Can you write pure Tamil? If so, rush in. A lover of Tamil has come forward to offer five rupees (as a prize) for anyone who writes, not less than eight pages on the history of Tiruvalluvar in our Gnanabhanu, which uses only pure Tamil words with no mixtures of words from other languages like Sanskrit.”<br />
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==Honours==<br />
The office of Dindugal district collector is named after as ''Thiagi Subramania Siva Maaligai'' after him. Bathlagundu bus stand is named after Siva. A memorial has been established at Papparapatti near [[Pennagaram]] in [[Dharmapuri district]].<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.hindu.com/2010/02/20/stories/2010022062450400.htm|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100224230209/http://www.hindu.com/2010/02/20/stories/2010022062450400.htm|url-status=dead|archive-date=24 February 2010|work=[[The Hindu]]|title=Memorial for Subramania Siva|date=10 February 2010}}</ref><br />
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