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{{Short description|Prominent Indian business family}}
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|region=[[Chennai]], [[Tamil Nadu]], India
|origin=[[Madurai]], [[Tamil Nadu]], India
|members= [[T. V. Sundram Iyengar]]<br/>[[T. S. Soundaram]]<br/>[[Sheela Balaji]]<br/>[[Venu Srinivasan]]<br/>[[Lakshmi Venu]]
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The '''T. V. S. family''' is an Indian business family, based in [[Chennai]], India. The TVS Group has its principal headquarters in Madurai and international headquarters in Chennai. It has more than 50 subsidiaries across sectors. [[T. V. Sundram Iyengar]] founded the group in 1911 with the establishment of T. V. Sundram Iyengar & Sons in Madurai.

==Background==
The family is from the [[Iyengar]] community - [[Tamil Brahmin]]s who are adherents of [[Sri Vaishnavism]] - hailing from [[Tirunelveli district]]. The founder T. V. Sundram Iyengar was born in 1877 in [[Thirukkurungudi]]. Sundram Iyengar qualified as a lawyer, and later worked in the [[Indian Railways]] and later in a bank. He later moved to Madurai and founded the TVS group.<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><ref>{{Cite web|date=2019-10-07|title=8 Most Successful Indian Family Businesses Running Over A Century|url=https://www.marketingmind.in/8-most-successful-indian-family-businesses-running-over-a-century/|access-date=2022-01-15|website=Marketing Mind|language=en-US}}</ref>

==Family==
Sundram Iyengar and Lakshmi Ammal had eight children - five sons and three daughters. The five sons all joined the family business. The eldest son — T. S. Doraisamy died in 1943 and the other four sons - T. S. Rajam, T. S. Santhanam, T. S. Srinivasan and T. S. Krishna continued to run different businesses.<ref name="BLOC">{{cite web |title=Splitting the century-old TVS Group |url=https://bloncampus.thehindubusinessline.com/case-studies/splitting-the-century-old-tvs-group-case-study/article65798962.ece |website=BLoC |access-date=5 August 2023 |language=en |date=22 August 2022}}</ref>
Of the daughters, Dr. [[T. S. Soundram]] was a [[physician]], [[social reformer]] and [[politician]].<ref>{{cite web |title=Friend, philosopher and athai |url=https://www.thehindu.com/features/metroplus/society/friend-philosopher-and-athai/article5706317.ece |website=The Hindu |access-date=5 August 2023 |language=en-IN |date=19 February 2014}}</ref>

==Family tree==

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{{chart| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |TVS| | | | | | | | | |TVS=[[T. V. Sundram Iyengar]]}}
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{{chart| |TSD| | |TSR| | | | | |TSK| | | | | | | |TSS| | | | | | | | | |TSSr| | | | | | | |TSSo|TSD=T. S. Doraiswami|TSR=T. S. Rajam|TSK=T. S. Krishna|TSS=T. S. Santhanam|TSSr=T. S. Srinivasan|TSSo=[[T. S. Soundaram]]}}
{{chart| | | |,|-|-|-|^|-|.| |,|-|-|-|+|-|-|-|.| | | |,|-|-|^|v|-|-|-|-|.| | | | |,|^|-|-|-|-|v|-|-|.|}}
{{chart| | |RR| | |RRM| |SK| |KR| |KM| |SR| |PR| | |SV| | |VS| |SB| |GS|RR=R. Ramachandran|RRM=R. Ratnam|SK=[[Suresh Krishna (businessman)|Suresh Krishna]]|KR=K. Ramesh|KM=K. Mahesh|SR=S. Ram|PR=Prema Ramanujam|SV=S. Viji|VS=[[Venu Srinivasan]]|SB=[[Sheela Balaji]]|GS=Gopal Srinivasan}}
{{chart/end}}

==References==
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[[Category:TVS family| ]]
[[Category:Business families of India]]
[[Category:Tamil people]]
[[Category:Banking families]]

TVS family - Revision history

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