Who among the following prominent leaders founded the 'Madras Native Association' in 1852, marking the earliest organized political platform to voice public grievances against British company rule in South India?

💡 Solution & Explanation

Gajulu Lakshminarasu Chetty founded the Madras Native Association in 1852 to agitate against excessive land revenue taxation, judicial corruption, and missionary interference supported by the East India Company. S. Subramania Iyer and G. Subramania Iyer were later founding figures of the Madras Mahajana Sabha and the nationalist newspaper 'The Hindu'. V. Krishnaswami Iyer was a prominent jurist associated with the Indian National Congress moderation phase. The association submitted comprehensive petitions highlighting administrative abuses to the British Parliament.