Subramaniya Siva (4 October 1884 – 23 July 1925) was an Indian freedom fighter, writer and pure Tamil movement activist during the Indian independence movement.

[3] Subramaniya Siva was born in a Tamil Brahmin Iyer family[4] at Batlagundu near Dindigul in erstwhile Madurai district of Madras presidency.

While serving a prison term, he was afflicted by leprosy and was shifted to Salem jail.

[1] A movement started by Maraimalai Adigal, the Thanittamil (‘pure Tamil’) literary movement intended to rid the Tamil language of non-Tamil words.

A lover of Tamil has come forward to offer five rupees (as a prize) for anyone who writes, not less than eight pages on the history of Tiruvalluvar in our Gnanabhanu, which uses only pure Tamil words with no mixtures of words from other languages like Sanskrit.” The office of Dindigul district collector is named after as Thiyagi Subramania Siva Maaligai after him.