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dated October 28, 1953: Dr. Rajan Passes Away

The death occurred on the 27th in his residence in Tirucchirappalli of Dr. T.S.S. Rajan (73), former Health Minister of Madras and well-known Congress leader. Afflicted by pneumonia the previous week, his temperature became normal on the 25th. The end came suddenly. In October 1952, Dr. Rajan had contracted uraemia at his native village of Tiruvengimalai, and was brought to Tirucchirappalli. Dr. Rajan was survived by two daughters. Born in 1880 in Nagapattinam, he was a student of the Medical School, Madras where he took a first class L.M.P. In 1907, he left for London for higher medical studies. D. Rajan came under the influence of Mahatma Gandhi and Rajaji. As in everythying he undertook, Dr. Rajan became a most active worker for India's freedom. From 1914, he was by turns the Secretary and President of the Tirucchirappalli District Congress Committee for over three decades. In 1919, he took part in the agitation against the infamous Rowlatt Act, as well as in the Home Rule Movement of Dr. Annie Besant. In 1920, Dr. Rajan suspended his lucrative practice to devote all his time to Congress work. He was Secretary of the T.N.C.C. for a number of years and also acted as General Secretary of the Indian National Congress after the imprisonment of Rajaji in 1927. For organising Prohibition work, the British Government imprisoned him for a year. In 1930, he joined the Salt Satyagraha movement and was sentenced to 18 months' imprisonment. He was released after the Gandhi-Irwin Pact. Dr. Rajan became a member of the Indian Legislative Assembly representing the Tanjore-Tirucchirappalli Constituency in 1934. In 1937, when Rajaji formed a Congress Ministry in Madras, Dr. Rajan became Minister for Public Health and Religious Endowments which post he occupied with distinction till 1939 when the Congress Party relinquished office. He was incarcerated again for a time after the outbreak of World War II. Dr. Rajan was elected to the Madras Assembly and was Minister for Food in the Congress Ministry from 1947 to 1949. He continued then in the Cabinet as Minister for Public Health and Religious Endowments and Resettlement of ex-Army Personnel. A fine writer in Tamizh, he wrote Veettu Vaidyar, a treatise on medicine for the layman, and Ninaivu Alaigal, an essay in autobiography.

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