Personal Life and Death
T V Sundram Iyengar proved himself as a forward thinker when he got his daughter T. S. Soundaram, then a teenage widow, remarried, under the auspice of Mahatma Gandhi. T. S. Soundaram then involved herself in the Indian independence movement along with Gandhi. She was later honoured with a postal stamp released in her honour.
Apart from being a successful business man, Sundram Iyengar was a patron of the arts. He was praised by Rajaji, a senior statesmen and governor general of India at that time, for his gesture of retiring and handing over the trade to his sons. He died in the early hours of April 28, 1955 at his residence in Kodaikanal at the age of 78 and at that time was survived by his wife, four sons and three daughters. Sundram Iyengar was honoured by the Union Government of India by unveiling busts in bronze and in marble in the city of Madurai, Tamil Nadu on August 7, 1956.
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