Saw Ganesan

Kamban Adippodi Saw Ganesan (6 June 1908 – 28 July 1982) was an Indian politician and Tamil activist, writer, historian, and epigraphist.

Saw Ganesan was born on 6 June 1908 in Karaikudi, Chettinad to Swaminathan and Nachiyammai, a Tamil merchant family.

[2] In 1942, the British Raj issued a "shoot on sight" order against him for his involvement in the Quit India Movement.

[2] Ganesan contested the presidential election for the Tamil Nadu Congress Committee in 1946 but lost to K.

[3] Following a disagreement with Jawaharlal Nehru socialist policies, Rajaji formed the liberal Swatantra Party in 1959.

He commissioned sculptor Vaidyanatha Stapathi to design Tamil Thai as an idol of the goddess and to construct the temple in Karaikudi.