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{{Short description|Indian politician}}
{{Peacock|date=October 2014}}
{{Use Indian English|date=December 2015}}
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{{Infobox Officeholder
| honorific-prefix =
| name = Thirumudi N. Sethuraman
| honorific-suffix =
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| order1 = Member of Parliament (Lok Sabha) for [[Puducherry (Lok Sabha constituency)|Pondicherry]]
| term_start1 = 1967
| term_end1 = 1971
| primeminister1 = [[Indira Gandhi]]
| successor1 =[[Mohan Kumaramangalam]]
| order2 = [[Deputy Mayor of Puducherry]]
| term_start2 = 1965<ref>{{cite web|url=http://news.desigoogly.com/sethuraman-n-biography/|title=SETHURAMAN N Biography|work=Desi Times|accessdate=31 October 2014}}</ref>
| term_end2 = 1967
| order3 = [[Member, Puducherry Legislative Assembly]]
| term_start3 = September 1955<ref name="biodata_1_12_1952">{{cite web|url=http://loksabhaph.nic.in/writereaddata/biodata_1_12/1952.htm |title=4th Lok Sabha Members Bioprofile: SETHURAMAN, SHRI N. |access-date=2019-11-21}}</ref>
| term_end3 = November 1958
| term_start4 = October 1963 <ref name="biodata_1_12_1952"/>
| term_end4 = August 1964
| birth_date = 24 January 1923
| birth_place = [[Pondicherry]], [[India]]
| death_date = {{death date and age|df=yes|1979|12|23|1923|01|24}}
| nationality = [[India]]n
| party = [[Indian National Congress]]
| profession = [[Politician]]
| spouse = Marie Therese
}}

'''Thirumudi N. Sethuraman'''({{lang-ta|திருமுடி.ந.சேதுராமன்}}) (b. 24 January 1923 - d. 23 December 1979) was an Indian politician. He participated in the [[Indian independence movement]]. In 1946, he made a turning point in the history of the freedom movement in [[Puducherry (union territory)|Puducherry]] (then called Pondicherry) by forming the French India National Congress along with J. Savarinathan, Ambadi Narayanan, Govinda Pathar and M. A. Annamalai.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://statistics.puducherry.gov.in/gazetter/PDF/II%20-%20IV-%20FREEDOM%20MOVEMENT.pdf|title=The Freedom Movement|publisher=Statistics.puducherry.gov.in|accessdate=31 October 2014}}</ref> It was succeeded by [[French India Students Congress]].<ref>Madhava Menon, N. R., and D. Banerjea. ''[https://books.google.com/books?id=Axfuc5A8mxMC&pg=PA11 Criminal Justice India Series]''. Ahmedabad: Allied Publishers in collaboration with National University of Juridical Sciences, 2002. p. 11</ref> He is often called as T. N. Sethuraman Chettiar by the affectionate people.
He served as the Deputy Mayor of Pondicherry. In 1967, he was elected as the Member of Parliament from [[Puducherry (Lok Sabha constituency)]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://164.100.47.132/LssNew/Members/lokaralpha.aspx?lsno=4|title=Lok Sabha|publisher=164.100.47.132|accessdate=31 October 2014|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20141031132207/http://164.100.47.132/LssNew/Members/lokaralpha.aspx?lsno=4|archivedate=31 October 2014|df=dmy-all}}</ref>

He was a scholar and a great philanthropist.<ref>{{cite web|title=Dravida Peravai's Dancing Peacock from Switzerland|url=http://www.dravidaperavai.org.in/topic_viewer.php?art=14&xfile=1}}</ref> He was a man of simplicity. He was the political guru for many of the present politicians of Puducherry.{{citation needed|date=November 2014}}

To honor him, a street was named after him.

==Early life==

Thirumudi N. Sethuraman was born in [[Pondicherry|Puducherry]] to Nataraja Chettiar and Kusalambal Ammaiyar on 24 January 1923. His parents believed that he was born by the grace of Lord at Rameswaram after his elder brother died at the age of 4. He was actually named 'Sethu Ramasamy' on the belief of the news that there was Sethu Dam built by Lord Ram in Rameswaram. Later he was called 'Sethuraman' and 'Thirumudi' is his family name. He had a younger brother named 'Velmurugan' and younger sister named 'Rasambal'. Their family lived in the Traditional Chettinad House in Ananda Rangapillai Street of Puducherry where you could feel the presence of Lord Lakshmi and Lord Saraswati.

His family was well known in the city. They were wealthy and famous in Puducherry. His ancestor Arumuga Chettiar and his descendants were in [[Tharangambadi]] and was having trade with Dutch. They were into trade of Dye, Tobacco, Soap etc. Their trade expanded to Mauritius. They had farmlands and two Bungalows in Mauritius. They have built a temple for Lord Shiva in Mauritius which is still existing. Later they gave their farmland for lease to 'Helios Malaka Company'. In meanwhile they got contact with French East India Company and shifted to Puducherry where they continued their business. One of them was 'Padangu Narayanasamy Chettiar', a philanthropist who was appreciated by M. Z. Savarayalounayagar in Recueil de chants tamouls.<ref>{{cite web|title=Google Books:Recueil de chants tamouls|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=gL0xAQAAMAAJ|last1 = Nāyakar|first1 = Cavarāyalu|year = 1878}}</ref>

Favorite Pastime and recreation: Reading.

Special interests: Archaeology, collection of antiquities.

Travels abroad: Ceylon, U.S.S.R., Japan, Indonesia, Norway and Denmark.

==Gallery==
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File:President_Rajendra_Prasad.jpg|With Ex-President Dr.[[Rajendra Prasad]]
File:President_Dr.S.Radhakrishnan.jpg|With Ex-President Dr.[[Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan]]
</gallery>

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[[Category:People from Pondicherry]]
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