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{{infobox person
| name               = K. M. Thiagarajan
| birth_name         = Karumuttu Muthukaruppan Thiagarajan Chettiar
| birth_date         = {{birth date|df=yes|1893|6|16}}
| birth_place        = Athikkadu Thekkur, Sivagangai, [[Madras Presidency]], [[British India]]
| death_date         = {{death date and age|df=yes|1974|7|29|1893|6|16}}
| occupation         = activist, industrialist
}}
'''Karumuttu Thiagarajan Chettiar''' (16 June 1893 – 29 July 1974), often called the 'Textile King ' or 'Textile Baron ', was an Indian [[Indian independence movement|independence]] activist, industrialist and the founder of [[Thiagarajar College of Engineering]], [[Thiagarajar school of management]] and Thiagarajar Polytechnic College, Salem.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.hindu.com/mp/2009/01/03/stories/2009010353370800.htm|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111101190953/http://www.hindu.com/mp/2009/01/03/stories/2009010353370800.htm|url-status=dead|archive-date=1 November 2011|title= Made for each other  |last=Basu|first=Soma|date=3 January 2009|work=[[The Hindu]]|accessdate=5 February 2010}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-national/km-thiagarajan-passes-away/article1784581.ece|title= K.M. Thiagarajan passes away  |date=19 January 2007|work=[[The Hindu]]|accessdate=3 October 2015}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.thehindubusinessline.com/2007/01/31/stories/2007013100221900.htm|title= Thiagarajar College's golden jubilee  |date=31 January 2007|work=[[The Hindu]]|accessdate=5 February 2010}}</ref>
Chettiar was born in 1893 to Muthukaruppan [[Chettiar]] and Vinaitherthal achi (Sivakami achi) was born in [[Sivagangai District]], [[Madra Presidency]]. He was the tenth and last child in his family. He was educated at [[S. Thomas' College, Mount Lavinia]], [[Colombo]], [[Sri Lanka]]. He edited a newspaper championing the cause of the plantation workers. He returned from Sri Lanka and was elected Secretary of the Madras Province Congress Committee of the [[Indian National Congress]]. In his lifetime Chettiar established fourteen [[textile mill]]s - notable among these The Sree Meenakshi Mills which was once adjudged Asia’s most modern spinning mill and Rukmini Mills , purchased the Loyal Textile Mills  -currently a BSE Listed Company, P.Orr and Sons - luxury watch makers and retailers popularly known as the ‘Time keepers of Madras’ , the [[Bank of Madurai]], and the [[Madurai Insurance Company]]. For a number of years he also published a daily newspaper called ''Tamil Nadu Daily''. Chettiar also established nineteen educational institutions including Thiagarajar Preceptors College, Thiagarajar School of Management, Thiagarajar College of Engineering and Thiagarajar Polytechnic College.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.tce.edu/?q=node/18|title=Founder of TCE|work=[[Thiagarajar College of Engineering]]|accessdate=5 February 2010|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20100725201137/http://www.tce.edu/?q=node%2F18|archivedate=25 July 2010|df=dmy-all}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.hindu.com/edu/2005/02/28/stories/2005022805760500.htm|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20050422022015/http://www.hindu.com/edu/2005/02/28/stories/2005022805760500.htm|url-status=dead|archive-date=22 April 2005|title= On a high pedestal  |date=28 February 2008|work=[[The Hindu]]|accessdate=5 February 2010}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|title=India who's who|publisher=India News and Feature Alliance|year=1973|pages=61|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=cGVmAAAAMAAJ}}</ref>
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[[Category:People from Tamil Nadu]]
[[Category:Indian independence activists from Tamil Nadu]]
[[Category:1893 births]]
[[Category:1974 deaths]]
[[Category:Expatriates from British India]]
[[Category:Expatriates in British Ceylon]]
[[Category:Indian expatriates in Sri Lanka]]