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 K Kamaraj
Kamaraj was content for years to remain a rank and file Congress volunteer, working hard for the cause of the freedom movement, unmindful of his personal comfort or career.
Kamaraj was elected President of the Tamilnad Congress Committee in February 1940.
Kamaraj was elected to the Madras Legislative Assembly in 1937 unopposed.
www.congresssandesh.com /AICC/history/presidents/k_kamaraj.htm   (681 words)

  
 PIB Press Release
Kamaraj was elected to the Constituent Assembly of India in 1946 and to the Lok Sabha in 1952.
Kamaraj’s approach towards development was statesman-like and was astonishingly identical to that of Rajiv Gandhi who said “In the final analysis, the development is not just about factories, dams and roads.
Kamaraj’s rule, rightly acclaimed as the Golden Era of Tamil Nadu, led to massive industrialization, rural electrification and unprecedented government investment in education.
pib.nic.in /release/release.asp?relid=4557   (776 words)

  
 Kumaraswami Kamaraj Biography | Encyclopedia of World Biography
Kamaraj was made president of the party and his act was interpreted in the selfless sacrifice tradition of Mahatma Gandhi.
Kamaraj's political influence began to descend in 1967 when he was defeated for a seat in Parliament, and the DMK, now respectable, captured control of the Madras government.
Although Kamaraj was fluent only in the Tamil language, with English or Hindi being the power tongues of India, his political skills and the timing of crucial events combined to make him a respected national leader.
www.bookrags.com /biography/kumaraswami-kamaraj   (491 words)

  
 K. Kamaraj (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.cs.umd.edu)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Kamaraj (July 15, 1903 – October 02, 1975) was an Indian politician widely known as a kingmaker in Indian politics, widely known for his honesty, integrity and simplicity.
Kamaraj dropped out of school when he was in the sixth grade.
Kamaraj was arrested again in 1940 and sent to Vellore Jail while he was on his way to Wardha to get Gandhiji's approval for a list of satyagrahis.
www.danceage.com.cob-web.org:8888 /biography/sdmc_Kamaraj   (1023 words)

  
 Film on Kamaraj to mark birth centenary-Cities-NEWS-The Times of India   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Kamaraj played a long political innings both before and after India's independence from Britain in 1947, but went into a sharp decline in the last six years of his life, breaking away from the Congress.
Kamaraj's interest in India's freedom struggle was stoked when an English officer ordered his troops to open fire on unarmed gathering at the Jallianwala Bagh ground at Amritsar in April 1919, killing 379 men, women and children, prompting outrage across India.
Kamaraj was elected Congress president in 1963 and became arguably the most influential Congress leader.
timesofindia.indiatimes.com /articleshow.asp?art_Id=14794433   (623 words)

  
  Kamaraj - the King Maker
Kamaraj was elected as the president of the Tamil Nadu Congress in 1940, the post which he held till he became the chief minister of Tamil Nadu in 1954.
As the party chief, Kamaraj commenced his active role in the successive elections of the Congress legislative party of Madras and was the prime author of installing three chief ministers between 1946 and 1952: T Prakasam, Omandur Ramaswamy Reddiar and Kumaraswamy Raja.
The elevation of Kamaraj as the chief minister on the wave of opposition to the Rajaji scheme of education, led to the development of closer ties between Kamaraj and E V Ramasamy.
www.tamilnation.org /hundredtamils/kamaraj.htm   (3382 words)

  
 K. Kamaraj , K. Kamaraj Images, K. Kamaraj Details - Politics at MaxAbout.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Kamaraj was first jailed in 1921 for two years for participation in "Salt Satyagraha' Thereafter, he had been to prison several times in the course of the national struggle from freedom.
Kamaraj was elected to the Madras Legislative Assembly in 1932 unopposed.
Kamaraj was elected to the Lok Sabha in 1951.He resigned his Lok Sabha membership when the mantle of Chief Minstership of Tamil Nadu fell on him in 1954.
www.maxabout.com /politics/p_leaders/k_kamaraj.aspx   (479 words)

  
 The Hindu : Magazine / Columns : A forgotten hero
Kamaraj was a thick-set man with a white moustache — according to one reporter, he looked "like a cross between Sonny Liston and the Walrus...
These factors all weighed heavily with Kamaraj, who was concerned that the succession should signal a certain continuity.
For, as in May 1964, Kamaraj had worked to choose not the "best" leaders but the leader who would best signal continuity and stability.
www.hindu.com /mag/2005/08/14/stories/2005081400150300.htm   (898 words)

  
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Kamaraj war ab 1954 neun Jahre der Chefminister von Madras.
A set of commemorative coins marking the conclusion of the centenary celebrations of K Kamaraj would be released shortly.
K Kamaraj who was the Chief Minister of Madras in 1954 for nine years, was the pioneer of popular schemes, including mid-day meals and free school education.
www.indiacoins.de /Commemorate/2005-KMARAJ.htm   (70 words)

  
 K. Kamraj   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Kamaraj resolutely refused to bow to the dictates of his elders.
Kamaraj was arrested and sent to Alipore Jail for two years.
He came up with a plan which was called the "Kamaraj Plan." He proposed that all senior Congress leaders should resign form their posts and devote all their energy to the re-vitalization of the Congress.
www.liveindia.com /freedomfighters/21.html   (961 words)

  
 The Lanka Academic, the official newspaper of LAcNet
In the first part of this series, I proposed that the federal contract in the 1950 Constitution of India did not encompass a radical shift in center-state relations; it was not designed to resolve an ethnic conflict in that country, nor did it convert a unitary state into a federation.
Kamaraj’s involvement with the freedom struggle began at age sixteen when he began working full-time for Congress under Satyamurti.
If Kamaraj was the avatar of the “regional elite” integrated in Congress in its early years, then the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam represented the typical “regional party” which ascended during the Indira era.
theacademic.org /feature/163438009074080/index.shtml   (3403 words)

  
 Link to V P Singh, Deve Gowda & Vajpayee?
True, she had been Congress president (and imperiously supervised the dismissal of E M S Namboodiripad's Communist government in Kerala) and been a rather unimpressive information and broadcasting minister in the Shastri Cabinet, but that was about all.
In November 1995 at the BJP convention in Mumbai, L K Advani proposed that Atal Bihari Vajpayee would be the party's prime ministerial nominee.
Neither current Home Minister L K Advani nor present Defence Minister George Fernandes were in the Vajpayee government -- Advani, because he did not contest the 1996 election; Fernandes, because he was not an ally of the BJP in 1996.
www.rediff.com /election/2004/may/11equiz.htm   (1959 words)

  
 Periyar's Movement
Kamaraj abolished the half-day-teaching scheme, and assured Periyar that his Government would extent educationasl facilities to people in every nook and corner of the state.
Periyar sent a telegram to Kamaraj stating that it would be suicidal to the people of Tamil Nadu and to him, if he quit the office as the Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu.
But Kamaraj did not change his decision, and consequently M.Baktavatsalam became the Chief Minister on 3rd October, 1963.
www.countercurrents.org /dalit-periyar280603.htm   (5517 words)

  
 Prime Minister's Office
Bharat Ratna Shri K. Kamaraj belonged to that select breed of freedom fighters who walked the Gandhian path and contributed magnificently to making the freedom movement a truly mass movement in the country.
Shri Kamaraj first reluctantly accepted the office of the Chief Minister of erstwhile Madras State in 1954and in his tenure of nine years made his mark as an exceptionally able, pragmatic and effective administrator.
But Shri Kamaraj is a person whose memory needs to be recalled again and again and the release of this commemorative coin is a very timely event.
pmindia.nic.in /speech/content.asp?id=38   (740 words)

  
 The Hindu : Tributes paid to Kamaraj
He said that the humility and modesty which were hallmarks of Kamaraj deserved to be emulated by all those coming to power and public life.
K. Rajasekara Odayar, geneal secretary of the TMC, Mr.
Floral tributes were paid at the portrait of the leader in the TMC party office where a large number of volunteers referred to the need for sustained efforts to realise the dream of the leader for the speedy development of the country.
www.hinduonnet.com /thehindu/2000/07/16/stories/0416405b.htm   (298 words)

  
 The Telegraph - Calcutta : Nation
A number of state Congress committee members, led by G.K. Vasan, skipped a crucial meeting chaired by AICC general secretary Kamal Nath to discuss arrangements for the July 15 centenary of the party patriarch.
What Kamal Nath left unsaid was the likely repercussions of today’s development on the party’s attempt to revive the memory of Kamaraj — that, too, in his centenary year — in its bid to gain lost ground in the state.
The centenary celebrations will culminate in a public rally in Chennai on July 15, which will be addressed by Sonia soon after she unveils a statue of Kamaraj.
www.telegraphindia.com /1030625/asp/nation/story_2101987.asp   (474 words)

  
 DMK: 80 years old, and going strong : HindustanTimes.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
It was at a party conference in Tiruchirapally in 1954 that the DMK decided to embark on an electoral path.
The DMK's first legislator was PU Shanmugam from Tiruvannamalai, where he defeated a Congress candidate handpicked by K Kamaraj in a by-election in 1954.
Kamaraj had led the Congress to victory in the Tamil Nadu assembly for two terms but he decided to step down as chief minister in 1964.
www.hindustantimes.com /news/181_1691885,001302200001.htm   (570 words)

  
 Kamaraj
The pre-Independence period, depicting Kamaraj’s childhood, the influence of Satyamurthy, Kamaraj’s growth as a politician and his prison life.
It also displayed his sense of humour (like his response when his mother in the village sends word that she needed a fan and a blanket), his refusal to take advantage of his position (asking for the newly-installed tap to be removed from his village-house).
The third phase where he puts forth the Kamaraj Plan, resigns from the post of CM, involves himself in party work; his influence on national politics, his emergence as a kingmaker and finally his disillusionment with the emerging non-ethics in political life.
www.chennaionline.com /Moviereviews/tammov332.asp   (468 words)

  
 rediff.com: Cong merger talk revives on Kamaraj birthday
Talk of a merger between the Congress and its various offshoots in Tamil Nadu has revived following celebrations of the 99th birth anniversary of the former Tamil Nadu chief minister and Congress leader K Kamaraj.
At a function organised on the anniversary eve by the Indian National Trade Union Congress, the labour wing of the Congress, TRC chief Vazhapady K Ramamurthy indicated that he would like to return to the parent party.
At a public meeting, state Congress Party chief E V K S Elangovan also urged the people to dump the DMK and the AIADMK, even though the latter is an ally.
www.rediff.com /news/2001/jul/16kam.htm   (441 words)

  
 KAMARAJ COLLEGE   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
The KAMARAJ COLLEGE, was founded in 1966 by The Tuticorin Education Society,.
The College which is non-communal, non-sectarian has its paramount object to train the students to be good citizens and to give higher educational facilities to the students of southern districts of Tamilnadu seeking Collegiate Education.
Our college in the memory of our Perunthalaivar KAMARAJ is showered with a plenty of staff who struggle & stain for the upliftment of education & the students welfare in studies.
education.vsnl.com /kamarajcollege_tuty   (1137 words)

  
 The Hindu : National : Follow `Kamaraj Plan' Manmohan tells partymen
Hailing Kamaraj as a "pragmatic and effective administrator," he said his administration of the then Madras State was based on the simple advice — "face the problem, don't evade it.
He advocated the "Kamaraj Plan" for all senior Congress leaders to resign their posts and devote their energy to revitalise the party.
Rising from a humble background, Kamaraj was an embodiment of simplicity, honesty and compassion for the poor — qualities which endeared him to the masses who reciprocated his affection for their `perunthalaivar' (a great leader).
www.hindu.com /2004/10/28/stories/2004102808111100.htm   (497 words)

  
 Events: Raj path; Behind the scenes from the capital; July 27, 2003. The Week   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
At Kamaraj's 101st birth anniversary on July 15 it sought to pre-empt the Congress in honouring his memory.
BJP workers planted party flags around a Kamaraj statue at a busy traffic junction in the capital (which were soon after indignantly removed by the Congress state government).
The Tamil leader is best remembered for his Kamaraj plan in the early sixties, which, in a bid to refurbish the Congress then, sent many Union ministers back to the party organisation.
www.the-week.com /23jul27/events6.htm   (685 words)

  
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www.jhu.edu /~chem/karlin/new/013.html   (6919 words)

  
 Advani's Attack on Communists Condemned   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
It is ironical that Advani is citing the role of K Kamaraj, the Congress leader during the fight for independence.
He also underlined the fact that it was the RSS which was instrumental in assassinating the Father of the Nation, Mahatma Gandhi, who had sacrificed his life for the cause of freedom.
"Late Sri K Kamaraj, who was then the president of the All India Congress Committee had condemned the communalism of the RSS and for that reason the RSS made an attempt on his life when he was at his residence at New Delhi.
pd.cpim.org /2004/0321/03212004_advani.htm   (529 words)

  
 Dr. K. Prasad Rao : Faculty [ Dept. Metallurgical Eng. IITM ]
K S Raja, K Prasad Rao, " Hardness and Notch Toughness of a Semi-Austenitic PH 15-7 Mo(Cu) Weldments - A Study on the Effects of Pre and Post Weld Heat Treatments," Int.
K Prasad Rao, V Rama Rao, "Effect of Welding Parameters and Chemical Composition on the Content of Delta Ferrite in Austenitic Weld and Clad Metals"71st American Welding Society Annual Conference,Anaheim, USA, April 22-27, 1990
K N Krishnan, K Prasad Rao, "Stress Corrosion Cracking of Austenitic Clads" Internatinal Seminar on Stainless Steels by Indian Institute of Metals, Bombay, India, February 2-4, 1989
mme.iitm.ac.in /kpr   (7211 words)

  
 XII LOK SABHA DEBATES, Session II, (Monsoon)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Speaker, Sir, the IDPL of Chennai was established during the days of late Shri K. Kamaraj to manufacture life saving medicines, drugs and surgical instruments at a cheaper price to cater to the needs of millions of people of the nation.
Shri K. Kamaraj is remembered in Parliament and he is adorned and we are happy about it.
The industry which was established during the days of Shri K. Kamaraj is being starved day to day and it is not at all receiving the help of Central Government as those of other similar industries and the Central Government is not coming forward to revive the unit.
parliamentofindia.nic.in /lsdeb/ls12/ses2/10170798.htm   (393 words)

  
 XIIth Lok Sabha Election'98
The then ruling party at the Centre- the Congress (I), entered into an electoral understanding with the ruling DMK in the State to humble the Congress (O) led by K. Kamaraj.
In the next parliamentary elections in 1977, the Congress (I), the ruling party at the Centre, chose a new partner- the AIADMK to defeat its old ally, the DMK.
Kamaraj, Communist leaders P. Ramamurthy and M. Kalyanasundaram and legendary actress Vijayantimala Bali.
pib.nic.in /election/gnelc98/98ef7.html   (956 words)

  
 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
It flows from a product of ‘Dravidian rule’, if the advent of a lower caste leader like the late K Kamaraj as the Congress Chief Minister of what was then called the Madras State in 1954 could be dubbed one.
Universal free education at the school-level, accompanied by free meal scheme for the poor among them, initiated by the Kamaraj Government, have since contributed to the emergence of a population that is more ‘enlightened’ than their counterparts in many other parts of the country.
Preceding them was the First Amendment to the Indian Constitution, again at the behest of events in Tamil Nadu, which later went on to provide for job reservations to larger sections of the society than originally mandated under the Constitution.
www.observerindia.com /analysis/A315.htm   (1518 words)

  
 TMC announces plan to merge with Cong-Cities-NEWS-The Times of India   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
There were also intense deliberations with the state Congress leaders and TMC president G K Vasan after which the decision for a merger was taken, he added.
According to sources in the party, the formal merger is likely to take place in the city in the presence of Gandhi on July 15, the birth anniversary of late Congress leader K Kamaraj.
According to Tamil Nadu Congress Committee sources, a group of party workers met Chennithala and urged him not to change the TNCC president E V K S Elangovan as the party gained some respect in the state only after he was made the president.
timesofindia.indiatimes.com /articleshow.asp?art_Id=9692074   (390 words)

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