Diwan Bahadur R. N. Arogyasamy Mudaliar (1874-1933) was an Indian civil engineer and politician who served as the Minister of Development in the Madras Presidency from 1926 to 1928.

In the Subbarayan ministry

In the 1926 provincial elections, no party was able to win a clean majority. The Swarajya Party, the single largest party in the assembly was invited to form the government by they refused. The second largest party, the Justice Party, too, refused to form the government as they did not have enough seats in the assembly. As a result an independent ministry was formed with P. Subbarayan

P. Subbarayan

Paramasiva Subbarayan was an Indian politician, freedom fighter and diplomat and was the Chief Minister of Madras Presidency, India's ambassador to Indonesia and Union Minister of Transport and Communications in Jawaharlal Nehru's government. He is the father of General P. P...

 as the Chief Minister. A. Ranganatha Mudaliar

A. Ranganatha Mudaliar

Arcot Ranganatha Mudaliar was an Indian politician and theosophist from Bellary. He served as the Minister of Public Health and Excise for the Madras Presidency from 1926 to 1928.- Early life :...

 was appointed Minister of Education and Excise while Arogyasamy Mudaliar was made Minister of Development. However, a couple of years later, Arogyasamy Mudaliar resigned due to differences with the Chief Minister over the visit of the Simon Commission

Simon Commission

The Indian Statutory Commission was a group of seven British Members of Parliament that had been dispatched to India in 1927 to study constitutional reform in Britain's most important colonial dependency. It was commonly referred to as the Simon Commission after its chairman, Sir John Simon...

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