Sir Pitti Theagaroya Chetty KCSI (1852-1925) was an eminent lawyer and a prominent political leader from the erstwhile Madras province. He was one of the founders of the Justice Party in 1916 along with Dr.T.M.Nair. T.Nagar is a locality in Chennai which is named after him.
The Madras Non-Brahmin Association was formed in 1909 by two lawyers from Madras city, P. Subramanyam and M. Purushotham Naidu. However, Sir Theagaroya Chetty did not involve himself in the movement until 1912, when the Madras United League (Later renamed as Madras Dravidian Association) was formed.
At a meeting held in Madras in November 1916 by a group of about thirty people, including P. Thaagaroya Chetti and Dr. T. M. Nair, it was resolved to start a company for publishing newspapers advocating the cause of the non-Brahmin community.
The South Indian People's Association was later formed as the mouthpiece of non-Brahmins with organizing the media arm of the non-Brahmin Movement as its main objective. A political party was organised by the South Indian People's Association under the leadership of Sir P.Theagaroya Chetty and Dr.T.M.Nair and was named the South Indian Liberal Federation which later came to be popularly known as the Justice Party after the English daily Justice.
The newly-formed Justice Party enjoyed splendid successes at the beginning of the 1920s and captured power in Madras province when the first democratic elections were held in December 1920. A. Subbarayalu became its first Chief Minister. The successful run of the Justic Party continued till 1937 with 7 of the first 8 Chief Ministers of Madras province (Panagal Raja,P. Munuswamy Naidu,Ramakrishna Ranga Rao,P. T. Rajan and Kurma Venkatareddy Naidu)hailing from its ranks.
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