TVS family
| T. V. S. family | |
|---|---|
| Current region | Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India |
| Place of origin | Madurai, Tamil Nadu, India |
| Members | T. V. Sundram Iyengar T. S. Soundaram Sheela Balaji Venu Srinivasan Lakshmi Venu |
The T. V. S. family is an Indian business family, based in Chennai, India. The TVS Group has its principal headquarters in Madurai and international headquarters in Chennai. It has more than 50 subsidiaries across sectors. T. V. Sundram Iyengar founded the group in 1911 with the establishment of T. V. Sundram Iyengar & Sons in Madurai.
Background
The family is from the Iyengar community - Tamil Brahmins who are adherents of Sri Vaishnavism - hailing from Tirunelveli district. The founder T. V. Sundram Iyengar was born in 1877 in Thirukkurungudi. Sundram Iyengar qualified as a lawyer, and later worked in the Indian Railways and later in a bank. He later moved to Madurai and founded the TVS group.[1][2]
Family
Sundram Iyengar and Lakshmi Ammal had eight children - five sons and three daughters. The five sons all joined the family business. The eldest son — T. S. Doraisamy died in 1943 and the other four sons - T. S. Rajam, T. S. Santhanam, T. S. Srinivasan and T. S. Krishna continued to run different businesses.[3] Of the daughters, Dr. T. S. Soundram was a physician, social reformer and politician.[4]
Family tree
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| T. S. Doraiswami | T. S. Rajam | T. S. Krishna | T. S. Santhanam | T. S. Srinivasan | T. S. Soundaram | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| R. Ramachandran | R. Ratnam | Suresh Krishna | K. Ramesh | K. Mahesh | S. Ram | Prema Ramanujam | S. Viji | Venu Srinivasan | Sheela Balaji | Gopal Srinivasan | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
References
- ^ Ramaswamy, Vijaya (2017). Historical Dictionary of the Tamils (Second ed.). London: Rowman & Littlefield. ISBN 9781538106853.
- ^ "8 Most Successful Indian Family Businesses Running Over A Century". Marketing Mind. 2019-10-07. Retrieved 2022-01-15.
- ^ "Splitting the century-old TVS Group". BLoC. 22 August 2022. Retrieved 5 August 2023.
- ^ "Friend, philosopher and athai". The Hindu. 19 February 2014. Retrieved 5 August 2023.