Multiple choice

Who among the following established the Swadeshi Steam Navigation Company?

  1. A.D.Shroff

  2. Harisarvottam Rao

  3. V.O.Chidambram Pillai

  4. Walchand Hirachand

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Explanation

V.O. Chidambaram Pillai established the Swadeshi Steam Navigation Company in 1906 in Tuticorin to challenge the British monopoly on shipping. This was a significant Swadeshi initiative, though the British eventually crushed it through unfair competition and legal harassment, imprisoning Pillai.

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