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<p><b>New page</b></p><div>{{Short description|Indian geographer (1885-1943)}}<br />
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{{Infobox academic<br />
| name = N. Subrahmanyam <small>[[F.R.G.S.]]</small><br />
| occupation = Chair / Lecturer in Geography, [[Teachers' College, Saidapet, Chennai |College of Saidapet]]<br />
Founder- Secretary of the Madras Geographical Association, later renamed the Indian Geographical Society<br />
Editor-in-chief of the Madras Geographical Journal, and its successor, the Indian Geographical Journal<br />
| discipline = Geography<br />
| workplaces = [[Teachers' College, Saidapet, Chennai |College of Saidapet]]<br />
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| titles = [[Indian Science Congress|Recorder (Calcutta - Silver Jubilee Session, 1938) President (Lahore Session, 1939) of the Geography Section of The Indian Science Congress]]<br/><br />
[[Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society]]<br />
}} '''N. Subrahmanyam''' <small>[[M.A.]], L.T.{{what|date=January 2025}}, [[F.R.G.S.|F.R.G.S]]</small>. [[Indian Science Congress Association|<small>F.I.S.C.</small>]] (born '''Neikuppam - near Polur, Chennai; Appaya Dikshitar'''; January 14, 1885 - January 29, 1943) was an Indian geographer who served as the Chair of Modern Geography at [[Teachers' College, Saidapet|The College at Saidapet]]. At the Silver Jubilee section of the [[Indian Science Congress Association|Indian Science Congress]], the doyen of British geographers, [[H. J. Fleure]] {{Post-nominals|country=GBR|Ph.D.|FRS|FRAI}}, nominated Subrahmanyam for the 1939 Presidency, which he attained, receiving especial acclaim for his address, ''The Geographical Person of India'',<ref>{{Cite book |last=Subrahmanyam |first=N. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=T9ejygAACAAJ |title=The Geographical Personality of India |language=en}}</ref> soon receiving the plaudits of [[C. B. Fawcett]] and [[Dudley Stamp|Sir Laurence Dudley Stamp]] {{Post-nominals|country=GBR|CBE}} and establishing himself as founder-president of the [[Madras Geographical Association]], later renamed the [[Indian Geographical Society]], and Editor-in-chief of the [[Madras Geographical Journal]], and its successor, the [[Indian Geographical Journal]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=The Indian Geographical Society (IGS) |url=https://igschennai.org/founder.php |access-date=2024-03-19 |website=igschennai.org}}</ref><br />
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== Family ==<br />
He was born into the Calamur family as the son of Arunalachala Dikshitar, a direct scion of [[Appayya Dikshita]], and Balakucham, granddaughter of [[C. V. Runganada Sastri]]. His first cousin Venkataraman Sastri, who taught him mathematics and [[English language|English]], was [[Bharatikrishna Tirthaji Maharj|Bharatikrishna Tirthaji Maharaj]], Shankaracharya of Dwaraka and then Puri.<ref>{{Cite web |title=The Indian Geographical Society (IGS) |url=https://igschennai.org/founder1.php |access-date=2024-03-19 |website=igschennai.org}}</ref> <br />
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