Honorific-Prefix: | Honourable |
M. M. Subramaniam | |
Native Name: | ம. மு. சுப்பிரமணியம் |
Native Name Lang: | ta |
Honorific-Suffix: | MLC MSC |
Office1: | Member of the Legislative Council of Ceylon for Trincomalee |
Term Start1: | 1924 |
Term End1: | 1930 |
Office2: | Member of the State Council of Ceylon for Trincomalee-Batticaloa |
Term Start2: | 1931 |
Term End2: | 1936 |
Successor2: | E. R. Tambimuttu |
Birth Date: | c. 1870 |
Death Date: | 1945 |
Profession: | Lawyer |
Blank1: | Ethnicity |
Data1: | Ceylon Tamil |
Mylvaganam Mudaliyar Subramaniam (Tamil: மயில்வாகனம் முதலியார் சுப்பிரமணியம்|translit=Mayilvākaṉam Mutaliyār Cuppiramaṇiyam; c. 1870 – 1945) was a Ceylon Tamil lawyer, politician and member of the Legislative Council of Ceylon and State Council of Ceylon.
Subramaniam was born around 1870.[1] He was the son of Mylvaganam Mudaliyar, a wealthy coconut estate owner from Sambativu near Trincomalee in eastern Ceylon.[1]
Subramaniam had three sons - Alagrajah, Tharmarajah and Manickarajah.[1]
Subramaniam was a crown proctor and a member of the Trincomalee District Local Board.[1] He contested the 1924 legislative council election as a candidate for the Trincomalee seat and was elected to the Legislative Council of Ceylon.[1] [2] [3] Subramaniam contested the 1931 state council election as a candidate for the Trincomalee-Batticaloa seat and was elected to the State Council of Ceylon.[1] [4] He was elected Deputy Chairman of Committees when the new State Council met in July 1931.[5]
Subramaniam died in 1945.[1]
Constituency | scope=col | Party | scope=col | Votes | scope=col | Result |
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Trincomalee | Elected | |||||
Trincomalee-Batticaloa | Elected |
. Dictionary of Biography of the Tamils of Ceylon. 1997. 212–213. S. Arumugam.