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{{Infobox Officeholder
| honorific-prefix = Sir
| name = Subbarayalu Kumaraswami Reddiar
| image =
| imagesize = 200px
| order1 = Minister of Education and Excise (Madras Presidency)
| term_start1 = 27 October 1930
| term_end1 = 10 October 1936
| governor1 = [[George Frederick Stanley]]
| premier1 = [[B. Munuswamy Naidu]],<br />[[P. T. Rajan]],<br />[[Ramakrishna Ranga Rao of Bobbili]]
| predecessor1 = [[S. Muthiah Mudaliar]]
| successor1 = [[M. A. Muthiah Chettiar]]
}}

Diwan Bahadur '''Sir Subbarayalu Kumaraswami Reddiar''' (23 April 1876 - after 1937) was an Indian lawyer and politician who served as a minister in Madras Presidency.

== Early life ==

Kumaraswami Reddiar was born in [[Tinnevely]] on 23 April 1876. He was educated at the Hindu College, Tinnevely and graduated from [[Presidency College, Madras]]. He studied law at [[Madras Law College]] and practised law. He served as Government Pleader and Public Prosecutor of Tinnevely till September 1926 before joining the Justice Party in the late 1920s.

== Politics ==

Kumaraswami Reddiar was elected to the [[Madras Legislative Council]] on a Justice Party ticket in 1930.

Kumaraswami Reddiar resigned his ministry post due to ill-health in 1936 and he was replaced with Muthiah Chettiar in a move to wipe out differences in the party.<ref name="encyclopediaofpoliticalpartiesp198">[[#Encyclopaedia of Political Parties|Encyclopaedia of Political Parties]], Pg 198</ref> The resignation of P.T.Rajan and him lead to the step-down of B. Munuswamy Naidu from the position of Chief Minister and his subsequent succession by his rival Ramakrishna Ranga Rao, who was favoured by zamindars such as Muthiah Chettiar.

He was knighted in the 1937 Coronation Honours list.<ref>[https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/34396/supplement/3077 London Gazette, 11 May 1937]</ref>

== Notes ==

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== References ==

* {{cite book|title=The Who's who in Madras|pages=58|year=1935|publisher=Pearl Press}}
* {{cite book | title=Encyclopaedia of Political Parties| last=Ralhan| first=O. P. | year=2002| publisher=Anmol Publications PVT. LTD| isbn=978-81-7488-865-5|ref=Encyclopedia of Political Parties}}

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S. Kumaraswami Reddiar - Revision history

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