S. Srinivasa Iyengar

S. Srinivasa Iyengar

Name : S. Srinivasa Iyengar
Date of birth : 1874
Date of Death : May 19, 1941
Place of birth : Madras
Place of death :
Nationality: Indian
Gender: Male

S. Srinivasa Iyengar was a prominent Indian lawyer, freedom fighter and political leader. He was born in the year 1874 at the former Madras Presidency, Srinivasa Iyengar was the son of an orthodox Vaishnava Brahmin, who was the landowner of Ramanathapuram district. After graduating from college, he acquired a degree in law and worked as an advocate for sometime. It was when the non-cooperation movement incepted as part of the struggle for independence from the British that Iyengar resigned from the office of the Advocate General and joined the Indian National Congress. He presided over the Madras Provincial Conference (1920) at Tirunelvel.

Srinivasa Iyengar actively participated in the Congress sessions from Ahmedabad (1921) to Lahore (1929) and gave an unparalleled lead to the Congress in Madras for about ten years. After the Congress had decided on Council-Entry he led the party to victory in Madras in 1926 and was himself elected from Madras to the Central Assembly and also acted as Leader for a time when Motilal Nehru was away from India.Srinivasa lyengar presided over the Guwahati session of the Congress in 1926. Iyengar worked hard to deliver a resolution upholding Hindu-Muslim unity, bringing about a temporary political agreement between the political leaders of the two communities.He published Swaraj Constitution, in 1927, outlining a federal scheme of government for future India.

The differences between Motilal Nehru and Srinivasa Iyengar on the issue of dominion status versus independence became acute during 1929, and although it was decided finally in favour of Independence at the Lahore Congress in December 1929, Srinivasa lyengar himself decided to retire from active public life early in 1930. He return to political life in 1939.He died suddenly on May 19, 1941, at his residence.

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