Diwan Bahadur T. Rangachari CIE (1865–1945) was an Indian lawyer, politician, journalist, legislator, and active in the Egmore clique.
[1] Rangachari was born in 1865 in a prominent land-owning Iyengar family of the Madras Presidency.
[2] He practised successfully as a lawyer before entering the Indian Independence Movement.
On the leadership of T. Rangachari, the Rangachari Committee was formed for film censorship in 1927-28 under the competitive conditions created by the variety of American movie themes, such as romance, westerns, comedies, gangster and crime stories, when the Indian market was surviving mostly on mythological stories.
[3] Soon after the formation of the Indian National Congress, Rangachari joined the organisation and participated in its meetings.