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| name = T. V. Sundram Iyengar<br />
| image = TVS iyyengar.jpg<br />
| birth_name = Thirukkurungudi Vengaram Sundram Iyengar<br />
| birth_date = {{Birth date |df=yes|1877|3|22}}<br />
| birth_place = [[Thirukkurungudi]], [[Tamil Nadu]], [[British India]] <br />
| death_date = {{death date and age|df=yes|1955|4|28|1877|3|22}}<br />
| death_place = [[Kodaikanal]], [[Madurai district]], [[Madras state]], [[India]] (now [[Kodaikanal]], [[Dindigul district]], [[Tamil Nadu]], [[India]])<br />
| occupation = [[Business magnate|Industrialist]]<br />
| relatives = {{plainlist|<br />
[[Sheela_Balaji|Sheela balaji]] (Grand-daughter)<br />
* [[Venu Srinivasan]], (grandson) <br />
}}<br />
| footnotes = <br />
| children = 8, including [[T. S. Soundram]]<br />
}}<br />
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'''Thirukkurungudi Vengaram Sundram Iyengar''' (22 March 1877 - 28 April 1955) was an Indian industrialist and automobile pioneer. In 1911, he founded T. V. Sundram Iyengar & Sons, a bus company which later diversified into automobile production and emerged as the parent company of the [[TVS Group]], one of India's biggest business conglomerates.<ref name=TVS>[http://www.tvs,in/aboutus.htm TVS Iyengar] {{dead link|date=June 2020|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}</ref> With his humble beginning as a lawyer, he grew into one of the most successful industrialists of his time. The Flagship Company of the group is [[TVS Motors]] established by his son T.S. Doraiswamy. He laid foundation for road transport industry in the erstwhile [[Madras Presidency]] through the states first bus service. The TVS group he thus started now extends from motor industry, auto services to financial services.<br />
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==Birth and early life==<br />
T.V. Sundram Iyengar was born in 1877 in [[Thirukkurungudi]], in the state of [[Tamil Nadu]] in [[India]]. T.V. Sundram Iyengar started his initial career as a lawyer, as lawyer he has effective communication skills, as per his father's wishes, then moved to Hard work for the [[Indian railways]] and later in a bank.<br />
<ref name="Ramaswamy">{{cite book|last1=Ramaswamy|first1=Vijaya|title=Historical Dictionary of the Tamils|date=2017|publisher=Rowman & Littlefield|location=London|isbn=9781538106853|edition=Second}}</ref><br />
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==As an industrialist==<br />
Sundram Iyengar later quit his jobs<ref name=Outlook>[https://archive.today/20130131015726/http://www.outlookbusiness.com/print.aspx?articleid=159&editionid=16&catgid=73&subcatgid=490 60 years in business – Outlook Business]</ref> and laid the foundation for the motor transport industry in South India when he first started a bus service in the city of [[Madurai]] in the year 1911.<ref name=Outlook/><ref name=Hindu1>[https://web.archive.org/web/20060304000858/http://www.hindu.com/2005/04/29/stories/2005042900170902.htm T.V. Sundram Iyengar dead]</ref> He established the '''T.V. Sundram Iyengar and Sons Limited''' in 1911,In this way he achieved good technical skills, which by his death in 1955, operated a number of buses and lorries under the title of Southern Roadways Limited.<ref name=Hindu1/> This paved the way for the genesis of the [[TVS Group]].<br />
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During the times of the second world war, Madras Presidency was met with petrol scarcity, to meet the demands, Sundram Iyengar designed and produced the TVS Gas Plant. He also started a factory for rubber retreading, besides two more concerns, the Madras Auto Service Ltd and the Sundaram Motors, a division of T V Sundram Iyengar & Sons Ltd., the former was the largest distributors of General Motors in the 1950s.<ref name=Hindu1/> What started as a single man's passion soon became the business of a family.<br />
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Sundram Iyengar had five sons and three daughters, and in his patriarchal Tamil Brahmin family all male members got into the business. He has good leaderships quality and stay focused on his work. With his son, T.S. Doraisamy's early death, four other sons— T.S. Rajam, T.S. Santhanam, T.S. Srinivasan and T.S. Krishna – became an integral part of the business and ever since there have been four largely distinct branches that, however, have worked under the TVS umbrella.<ref name=Outlook/><br />
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The group established by Shri. Sundram Iyengar, according to the company, is currently the largest automobile distribution company in India, enjoys a turnover of about US$8.5 Billion{{Citation needed|date=July 2019}} and has an employee strength of over 60,000.<ref name=TVS/> The group operates in diverse fields like automotive component manufacturing, automotive dealerships, finance and electronics,<ref>[http://www.tvse.com/abt_corporate.asp TVS Electronics]</ref> as well as into IT solutions and services.<ref>[http://www.tvsinfotech.com TVS Infotech]</ref><br />
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Born Thirukkurungudi Vengaram Sundram Iyengar<br />
22 March 1877<br />
Tirukkurungudi, Tamil Nadu, British India<br />
Died 28 April 1955 (aged 78)<br />
Kodaikanal, Madurai district, Madras state, India (now Kodaikanal, Dindigul district, Tamil Nadu, India)<br />
T V Sundram Iyengar married Lakshmi Ammal and they had eight children - five sons and three daughters. Their son T. S. Doraiswamy, died at an early age .T V Sundram Iyengar accepted his daughter [[T. S. Soundram]], then a teenage widow who remarried [[G. Ramachandran (social reformer)]], under the compulsion of [[Mahatma Gandhi]].<ref>[http://www.goodnewsindia.com/Pages/content/institutions/gandhigram.html "The Mahatma's magic lives on in Gandhigram"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111111134436/http://www.goodnewsindia.com/Pages/content/institutions/gandhigram.html |date=11 November 2011 }}</ref> T. S. Soundaram then involved herself in the [[Indian independence movement]] along with Gandhi. She was later honoured with a [[postal stamp]] released in her honour.<ref>[http://www.thehindubusinessline.com/2005/10/03/stories/2005100302770300.htm Stamp on Dr T.S. Soundram released- The Hindu]</ref><br />
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Apart from being a successful business man, T V Sundram Iyengar was a patron of the arts.<ref>[http://www.arangham.com/ritrev/kaisiki/report.html Kasiki Natakam]</ref> He was praised by [[Rajaji]], a senior statesmen and governor general of India at that time, for his gesture of retiring and handing over the trade to his sons.<ref>[http://www.shvoong.com/humanities/5043-king-maker-kamaraj-grew-big/ THE KING MAKER-Kamaraj grew up as a big power]</ref> He died in the early hours of 28 April 1955 at his residence in [[Kodaikanal]] at the age of 78 and at that time was survived by his wife, four sons and three daughters.<ref name=Hindu1/> Sundram Iyengar was honoured by the [[Union Government of India]] by unveiling buses in bronze and in marble in the city of [[Madurai]], [[Tamil Nadu]] on 7 August 1956.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20071104094539/http://www.hindu.com/2006/08/07/stories/2006080700560902.htm Tributes to TVS Iyengar]</ref><br />
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