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वंचिनाथन
भारतीय क्रांतिकारी
वांचिनाथन (तमिल: வாஞ்சிநாதன்)(1886 - 17 जून 1911), जो वांचि के नाम से लोकप्रिय थे, एक भारतीय तमिल स्वतंत्रता सैनानी थे। उन्हें तिरुनेलवेली के कलेक्टर ऐश की हत्या के संदर्भ में अधिक जाना जाता है और उन्होंने बाद में गिरफ्तारी से बचने के लिए आत्महत्या कर ली.
व्यक्तिगत जीवन:
वांचिनाथन का जन्म 1886 में शेनकोट्टाई में रघुपति अय्यर और रुक्मणी अम्मल के घर हुआ था। उनका वास्तविक नाम शंकरन था। उन्होंने शेनकोट्टाई से अपनी स्कूली शिक्षा पूरी की और तिरुवनंतपुरम में मूलम तिरूनल महाराजा कॉलेज से एम. ए. की उपाधि प्राप्त की. कोलेज में पढ़ते हुए ही उन्होंने पोन्नम्माळ से विवाह कर लिया और एक लाभपूर्ण सरकारी नौकरी करने लगे.
स्वतंत्रता आन्दोलन:
17 जून 1911 को, वांचि ने ऐश की हत्या की, जो तिरुनेलवेली का जिला कलेक्टर था और जो कलेक्टर दोराई के नाम से भी जाना जाता था। उन्होंने ऐश को उस समय बहुत नज़दीक से गोली मारी जब वह मनियाची स्टेशन से मद्रास की ओर जा रहा था। उसके तुरंत बाद उन्होंने आत्महत्या कर ली. तभी से उस रेलवे स्टेशन का नाम वांचि मनियाची रख दिया गया।
उस दिन, ऐश प्रातः 9-30 तिरुनेलवेली जंक्शन से मनियाची मेल में बैठा. उसके साथ उसकी पत्नी मेरी लिलियन पैटर्सन थी, जो आयरलैंड से कुछ ही दिनों पहले आयी थी। उनका विवाह 6 अप्रैल 1898 में बरहामपुर में में हुआ था; मेरी ऐश से लगभग एक वर्ष बड़ी थी। वे कोडाईकनाल जा रहे थे जहां उनके चार बच्चे मोली, आर्थर, शेइला और हर्बर्ट एक किराए के बंगले में रहते थे। 10-38 पर ट्रेन मनियाची में रुकी. सीलोन बोट मेल 10-48 पर आने वाली थी। जब ऐश परिवार प्रथम श्रेणी डिब्बे में एक दूसरे के आमने-सामने बैठ कर बोट मेल की प्रतीक्षा कर रहे थे, बड़े करीने से कपड़े पहने हुए गुच्छेदार बालों वाला एक व्यक्ति और धोती पहना हुआ एक अन्य व्यक्ति डिब्बे के पास आये. पहले आदमी ने डब्बे में प्रवेश किया और एक बेल्जियन-निर्मित ब्राउनिंग स्वचालित पिस्टल निकाली. गोली सीधे ऐश के सीने में लगी और वह वही मर गया। गोली की आवाज़ तेज़ हवा की आवाज़ से दब गयी।
हत्या करने के बाद वे प्लेटफॉर्म के साथ दौड़ते हुए एक शौचालय में छुप गए। कुछ समय बाद उन्हें मृत पाया गया, उन्होंने स्वयं को गोली मार ली थी। उनकी जेब से यह पत्र प्राप्त हुआ:
"इंग्लैंड के इन मलेच्छों ने हमारे देश पर कब्जा करके, हिन्दुओं के सनातन धर्म को पैरों के नीचे कुचल डाला और उन्हें बर्बाद कर दिया. प्रत्येक भारतीय, अंग्रेजों को बाहर भगाने और स्वराज्य पाने और सनातन धर्म कि रक्षा करने का प्रयास कर रहा है। हमारे राम, शिवाजी, कृष्ण, गुरु गोविंद, अर्जुन ने सभी धर्मों की रक्षा करते हुए हमारी धरती पर राज किया और इस धरती पर वे जोर्ज V की ताजपोशी करने की तैयारी कर रहे हैं, जो एक मलेच्छ और गोमांस भक्षी है। तीन हजार मद्रासियों ने जॉर्ज V के हमारी भूमि पर कदम रखते ही उसे मार देने का प्रण लिया है। दूसरों को अपने उद्देश्यों से अवगत कराने के लिए, मैंने, जो कम्पनी में सबसे निम्न हूं, यह काम आज किया है। हिन्दुस्तान में सभी को इसे अपना कर्तव्य मानना चाहिए.
एसडी/- आर. वांची अय्यर शेनकोटाह"
पत्र की विषय-वस्तु ने संकेत दिया कि हत्या राजनीतिक थी और इसने घोर आशंका को जन्म दिया. हत्या के समय ने आसन्न राज्याभिषेक के खिलाफ एक विरोध का संकेत दिया.
वांची, वाराहनेरी वेंकटेश सुब्रमण्या अय्यर के एक करीबी सहयोगी थे (सामान्य रूप वी.वी.एस.अय्यर या वा.वे.सु अय्यर के रूप में संक्षिप्त), एक और स्वतंत्रता सेनानी, जो ब्रिटिश को हराने के लिए हथियारों की तलाश कर रहे थे। उन्होंने इस योजना को बेहतरीन ढंग से निष्पादित करने के लिए वन्चिनाथन को प्रशिक्षित किया। वे भारत माता एसोसिएशन के सदस्य थे।
तमिलनाडु सरकार ने इस शहीद के जन्म-स्थान शेनकोट्टई में एक स्मारक बनाने का निर्णय लिया है।
विविध तथ्य:
फिल्म कप्पालोट्टिया तमिड़न में अभिनेता बालाजी ने वांचिनाथन की भूमिका निभाई. शिवाजी गणेशन ने वी॰ओ॰ चिदम्बरम पिल्लै की भूमिका निभाई।
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Vanchinathan
Vanchinathan Iyer (1886 – 17 June 1911), popularly known as Vanchi, was a Hindu Nationalist. He is best remembered for having shot dead Ashe, the Tax Collector of Thirunelveli and having later committed suicide in order to evade arrest.
Vanchinathan
Born
Shankaran
1886
Shenkottai
Died
June 17, 1911 (aged 24–25)
Cause of death
suicide
Known for
Assasinating Robert William Escourt Ashe
Spouse(s)
Ponnammal
A railway station in Tamil Nadu named in his remembrance as Vanchi Maniachi
Personal life:
Vanchinathan was born in 1886 in Shenkottai to Raghupathy Iyer and Rukmani Ammal. His actual name was Shankaran. He did his schooling in Shenkottai. He married Ponnammal and got into a lucrative government job.
Hindu Nationalist Movement:
Vanchinathan was part of a society called Bharatha Matha Association which comprised a group of young revolutionists plotting to kill King Goerge V due to him giving permission for usage of Cow’s skin and blood in preparation of Guns and armor. On 17 June 1911, Vanchi who was just 25, assassinated Ashe, the district collector of Tirunelveli, who was also known as Collector Dorai. He shot Ashe at point-blank range when Ashe's train had stopped at the Maniyachi Station, en route to Madras. He committed suicide thereafter. The railway station has since been renamed Vanchi Maniyachi.
Motive behind the murder:
VOC the inspiration:
It was in Travancore where he was leading a happy family life, Vanchinathan came to know about V. O. Chidambaram Pillai popularly known by his initials, V.O.C. who was fighting the British for the rights of the oppressed. In 1906, V.O.C launched the Swadeshi Steam Navigation Company, India's first shipping enterprise which operated two steamships between Tuticorin and Colombo thus putting a full-stop to British monopoly in shipping in the region. A year or so later, with the help of Coral mill workers, VOC staged a Strike against the management firm A&F Harvey which was paying very low wages to its labourers. These works of VOC inspired the young man who turned into a serious follower and made the dreams of the freedom fighter his own.
On March 12, 1908, V.O. Chidambaram Pillai was arrested for sedition and locked up in Palayamkottai. This stirred the emotions of freedom fighters in Tirunelveli and Tuticorin. Both the towns saw unprecedented agitations which was quelled with the help of a massive police force. A couple of months later, the court imposed two life sentences of 40 years each on VOC. VOC was sent to Coimbatore central prison where he spent the next two years. In 1911, Swadeshi Steam Navigation Company bankrupted and British took possession of the two steamships.
Between 1906 and 1908, when the two navigation companies were pitted against each other in a fierce battle, Ashe was posted in Tirunelveli/Tuticorin either in the capacity of a collector or as a district magistrate. It is said that Ashe did everything in his power to kill Swadeshi Steam Navigation Company. He also fully backed A&F Harvey throughout the protest. It is also said that Ashe issued a shoot at sight order during the agitations that followed VOC's arrest. The mastermind behind the assassination was Nilakanta Brahmachari who went around the Madras presidency in 1910 recruiting cadres and hatching plots against the British. In this venture, he was accompanied by Shankar Krishna Iyer, Vanchinathan's brother-in-law, who introduced the men to each other. This was when Vanchinathan was initiated into militant struggle for freedom. Along with a few other men, Nilakanta Bramhachari, Vaanchinathan and Shankar Krishna Aiyar found an organisation called Bharatha Matha Sangam which plots the assassination of influential British men.
Assassination of Ashe:
On 17 June 1911, Ashe boarded the 9-30 a.m. Maniyachi Mail at Tirunelveli Junction. With him was his wife, Mary Lillian Patterson, who had arrived from Ireland only a few days earlier. They had married on 6 April 1898, in Berhampore; Mary was about a year older than Ashe. They were on their way to Kodaikanal where their four children, Molly, Arthur, Sheila, and Herbert, lived in a rented bungalow. At 10:38 AM, the train pulled in at Maniyachi. The Ceylon Boat Mail was due to arrive at 10:48 AM. As the Ashes sat facing each other in the first class carriage, waiting for the Boat Mail to arrive, a neatly dressed man with tufted hair and another young man wearing a dhoti approached the carriage. The former boarded the carriage and pulled out a Belgian-made Browning automatic pistol. The bullet hit Ashe in the chest and he collapsed. The sound of the pistol shot was absorbed by the howling wind.
After the shooting, Vanchinathan ran along the platform and took cover in the latrine. Some time later he was found dead, having shot himself in the mouth. The pistol recovered from him was empty without any bullets as he just planned to kill himself after killing Ashe and had no intention to hurt anyone other than Ashe In his pocket was found following letter:
I dedicate my life as a small contribution to my motherland. I am alone responsible for this.
The mlechas of England having captured our country, tread over the sanathana dharma of the Hindus and destroy them. Every Indian is trying to drive out the English and get swarajyam and restore sanathana dharma. Our Raman, Sivaji, Krishnan, Guru Govindan, Arjuna ruled our land protecting all dharmas, but in this land they are making arrangements to crown George V, a mlecha, and one who eats the flesh of cows.
Three thousand Madrasees have taken a vow to kill George V as soon as he lands in our country. In order to make others know our intention, I who am the least in the company, have done this deed this day. This is what everyone in Hindustan should consider it as his duty.
I will kill Ashe, whose arrival here is to celebrate the crowning of cow-eater King George V in this glorious land which was once ruled by great samrats. This I do to make them understand the fate of those who cherish the thought of enslaving this sacred land.
I, as the least of them, wish to warn George by killing Ashe.
Vande Mataram. Vande Mataram. Vande Mataram
— sd/-, R. Vanchi Aiyar, Shencottah
The contents of the letter indicated that the murder was religious and caused great apprehension on the Ashe's activities against social evils. The timing of the assassination indicated a protest against the impending coronation.
Vanchi was a close collaborator of Varahaneri Venkatesa Subrahmanya Iyer (normally shortened to V.V.S.Aiyar or Va.Ve.Su Iyer), another activist who sought arms to defeat the British. He trained Vanchinathan to execute the plan in all perfection. They belonged to Bharatha matha Association.
The Tamil Nadu Government built a memorial in Shenkottai at his birthplace.
Legacy:
In the movie Kappalottiya Thamizhan, Actor Balaji played the role of Vanchinathan. Bharathiyar song "Kaattru veliyedai kannammma" was picturised with Gemini Ganesan and Savithri Sivaji Ganesan roled as V. O. Chidambaram Pillai.
The Maniyachchi Railway Station where Vanchinathan shot Ashe, was renamed to Vanchi Maniyachchi Junction Railway Station in remembrance of him.
A controversy:
The Hindu (Tamil) published an article based, what it said, on an interview with Jayakrishnan, who claimed to be the grandson of Vanchinathan. It was said in the article that Jayakrishnan blamed (his grandfather) Vanchinathan for neglecting the wife who was 8 months pregnant at that time. Jayakrishnan has purportedly said "What he (Vanchinathan) did was wrong". Writer Jayamohan has written an article on his website that the article has given wrong information as there was no descendants to Vanchinathan. The only girl child he had, died as an infant while he was still alive. He has stated in the article that in spite of several representation pointing to the untruths in the article, the paper has not published an apology.
The Hindu (Tamil) published an apology admitting that the contents of the (above-mentioned) article on Vanchinathan contained unverified false information and regretted for its publication.
For the first time in the history of independent India, a Dalit outfit paid floral tributes to Collector Robert William d’ Escourt Ashe, who was assassinated by Vanchinathan at Maniyachi Junction 104 years ago. “Since this great Briton was against untouchability and recognised the Dalits as human beings even when the caste-ridden society took all-out measures to oppress them, we pay floral tributes to the slain Collector,” justified members of Aathi Thamizhar Katchi.
भारतीय क्रांतिकारी
वांचिनाथन (तमिल: வாஞ்சிநாதன்)(1886 - 17 जून 1911), जो वांचि के नाम से लोकप्रिय थे, एक भारतीय तमिल स्वतंत्रता सैनानी थे। उन्हें तिरुनेलवेली के कलेक्टर ऐश की हत्या के संदर्भ में अधिक जाना जाता है और उन्होंने बाद में गिरफ्तारी से बचने के लिए आत्महत्या कर ली.
व्यक्तिगत जीवन:
वांचिनाथन का जन्म 1886 में शेनकोट्टाई में रघुपति अय्यर और रुक्मणी अम्मल के घर हुआ था। उनका वास्तविक नाम शंकरन था। उन्होंने शेनकोट्टाई से अपनी स्कूली शिक्षा पूरी की और तिरुवनंतपुरम में मूलम तिरूनल महाराजा कॉलेज से एम. ए. की उपाधि प्राप्त की. कोलेज में पढ़ते हुए ही उन्होंने पोन्नम्माळ से विवाह कर लिया और एक लाभपूर्ण सरकारी नौकरी करने लगे.
स्वतंत्रता आन्दोलन:
17 जून 1911 को, वांचि ने ऐश की हत्या की, जो तिरुनेलवेली का जिला कलेक्टर था और जो कलेक्टर दोराई के नाम से भी जाना जाता था। उन्होंने ऐश को उस समय बहुत नज़दीक से गोली मारी जब वह मनियाची स्टेशन से मद्रास की ओर जा रहा था। उसके तुरंत बाद उन्होंने आत्महत्या कर ली. तभी से उस रेलवे स्टेशन का नाम वांचि मनियाची रख दिया गया।
उस दिन, ऐश प्रातः 9-30 तिरुनेलवेली जंक्शन से मनियाची मेल में बैठा. उसके साथ उसकी पत्नी मेरी लिलियन पैटर्सन थी, जो आयरलैंड से कुछ ही दिनों पहले आयी थी। उनका विवाह 6 अप्रैल 1898 में बरहामपुर में में हुआ था; मेरी ऐश से लगभग एक वर्ष बड़ी थी। वे कोडाईकनाल जा रहे थे जहां उनके चार बच्चे मोली, आर्थर, शेइला और हर्बर्ट एक किराए के बंगले में रहते थे। 10-38 पर ट्रेन मनियाची में रुकी. सीलोन बोट मेल 10-48 पर आने वाली थी। जब ऐश परिवार प्रथम श्रेणी डिब्बे में एक दूसरे के आमने-सामने बैठ कर बोट मेल की प्रतीक्षा कर रहे थे, बड़े करीने से कपड़े पहने हुए गुच्छेदार बालों वाला एक व्यक्ति और धोती पहना हुआ एक अन्य व्यक्ति डिब्बे के पास आये. पहले आदमी ने डब्बे में प्रवेश किया और एक बेल्जियन-निर्मित ब्राउनिंग स्वचालित पिस्टल निकाली. गोली सीधे ऐश के सीने में लगी और वह वही मर गया। गोली की आवाज़ तेज़ हवा की आवाज़ से दब गयी।
हत्या करने के बाद वे प्लेटफॉर्म के साथ दौड़ते हुए एक शौचालय में छुप गए। कुछ समय बाद उन्हें मृत पाया गया, उन्होंने स्वयं को गोली मार ली थी। उनकी जेब से यह पत्र प्राप्त हुआ:
"इंग्लैंड के इन मलेच्छों ने हमारे देश पर कब्जा करके, हिन्दुओं के सनातन धर्म को पैरों के नीचे कुचल डाला और उन्हें बर्बाद कर दिया. प्रत्येक भारतीय, अंग्रेजों को बाहर भगाने और स्वराज्य पाने और सनातन धर्म कि रक्षा करने का प्रयास कर रहा है। हमारे राम, शिवाजी, कृष्ण, गुरु गोविंद, अर्जुन ने सभी धर्मों की रक्षा करते हुए हमारी धरती पर राज किया और इस धरती पर वे जोर्ज V की ताजपोशी करने की तैयारी कर रहे हैं, जो एक मलेच्छ और गोमांस भक्षी है। तीन हजार मद्रासियों ने जॉर्ज V के हमारी भूमि पर कदम रखते ही उसे मार देने का प्रण लिया है। दूसरों को अपने उद्देश्यों से अवगत कराने के लिए, मैंने, जो कम्पनी में सबसे निम्न हूं, यह काम आज किया है। हिन्दुस्तान में सभी को इसे अपना कर्तव्य मानना चाहिए.
एसडी/- आर. वांची अय्यर शेनकोटाह"
पत्र की विषय-वस्तु ने संकेत दिया कि हत्या राजनीतिक थी और इसने घोर आशंका को जन्म दिया. हत्या के समय ने आसन्न राज्याभिषेक के खिलाफ एक विरोध का संकेत दिया.
वांची, वाराहनेरी वेंकटेश सुब्रमण्या अय्यर के एक करीबी सहयोगी थे (सामान्य रूप वी.वी.एस.अय्यर या वा.वे.सु अय्यर के रूप में संक्षिप्त), एक और स्वतंत्रता सेनानी, जो ब्रिटिश को हराने के लिए हथियारों की तलाश कर रहे थे। उन्होंने इस योजना को बेहतरीन ढंग से निष्पादित करने के लिए वन्चिनाथन को प्रशिक्षित किया। वे भारत माता एसोसिएशन के सदस्य थे।
तमिलनाडु सरकार ने इस शहीद के जन्म-स्थान शेनकोट्टई में एक स्मारक बनाने का निर्णय लिया है।
विविध तथ्य:
फिल्म कप्पालोट्टिया तमिड़न में अभिनेता बालाजी ने वांचिनाथन की भूमिका निभाई. शिवाजी गणेशन ने वी॰ओ॰ चिदम्बरम पिल्लै की भूमिका निभाई।
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Vanchinathan
Vanchinathan Iyer (1886 – 17 June 1911), popularly known as Vanchi, was a Hindu Nationalist. He is best remembered for having shot dead Ashe, the Tax Collector of Thirunelveli and having later committed suicide in order to evade arrest.
Vanchinathan
Born
Shankaran
1886
Shenkottai
Died
June 17, 1911 (aged 24–25)
Cause of death
suicide
Known for
Assasinating Robert William Escourt Ashe
Spouse(s)
Ponnammal
A railway station in Tamil Nadu named in his remembrance as Vanchi Maniachi
Personal life:
Vanchinathan was born in 1886 in Shenkottai to Raghupathy Iyer and Rukmani Ammal. His actual name was Shankaran. He did his schooling in Shenkottai. He married Ponnammal and got into a lucrative government job.
Hindu Nationalist Movement:
Vanchinathan was part of a society called Bharatha Matha Association which comprised a group of young revolutionists plotting to kill King Goerge V due to him giving permission for usage of Cow’s skin and blood in preparation of Guns and armor. On 17 June 1911, Vanchi who was just 25, assassinated Ashe, the district collector of Tirunelveli, who was also known as Collector Dorai. He shot Ashe at point-blank range when Ashe's train had stopped at the Maniyachi Station, en route to Madras. He committed suicide thereafter. The railway station has since been renamed Vanchi Maniyachi.
Motive behind the murder:
VOC the inspiration:
It was in Travancore where he was leading a happy family life, Vanchinathan came to know about V. O. Chidambaram Pillai popularly known by his initials, V.O.C. who was fighting the British for the rights of the oppressed. In 1906, V.O.C launched the Swadeshi Steam Navigation Company, India's first shipping enterprise which operated two steamships between Tuticorin and Colombo thus putting a full-stop to British monopoly in shipping in the region. A year or so later, with the help of Coral mill workers, VOC staged a Strike against the management firm A&F Harvey which was paying very low wages to its labourers. These works of VOC inspired the young man who turned into a serious follower and made the dreams of the freedom fighter his own.
On March 12, 1908, V.O. Chidambaram Pillai was arrested for sedition and locked up in Palayamkottai. This stirred the emotions of freedom fighters in Tirunelveli and Tuticorin. Both the towns saw unprecedented agitations which was quelled with the help of a massive police force. A couple of months later, the court imposed two life sentences of 40 years each on VOC. VOC was sent to Coimbatore central prison where he spent the next two years. In 1911, Swadeshi Steam Navigation Company bankrupted and British took possession of the two steamships.
Between 1906 and 1908, when the two navigation companies were pitted against each other in a fierce battle, Ashe was posted in Tirunelveli/Tuticorin either in the capacity of a collector or as a district magistrate. It is said that Ashe did everything in his power to kill Swadeshi Steam Navigation Company. He also fully backed A&F Harvey throughout the protest. It is also said that Ashe issued a shoot at sight order during the agitations that followed VOC's arrest. The mastermind behind the assassination was Nilakanta Brahmachari who went around the Madras presidency in 1910 recruiting cadres and hatching plots against the British. In this venture, he was accompanied by Shankar Krishna Iyer, Vanchinathan's brother-in-law, who introduced the men to each other. This was when Vanchinathan was initiated into militant struggle for freedom. Along with a few other men, Nilakanta Bramhachari, Vaanchinathan and Shankar Krishna Aiyar found an organisation called Bharatha Matha Sangam which plots the assassination of influential British men.
Assassination of Ashe:
On 17 June 1911, Ashe boarded the 9-30 a.m. Maniyachi Mail at Tirunelveli Junction. With him was his wife, Mary Lillian Patterson, who had arrived from Ireland only a few days earlier. They had married on 6 April 1898, in Berhampore; Mary was about a year older than Ashe. They were on their way to Kodaikanal where their four children, Molly, Arthur, Sheila, and Herbert, lived in a rented bungalow. At 10:38 AM, the train pulled in at Maniyachi. The Ceylon Boat Mail was due to arrive at 10:48 AM. As the Ashes sat facing each other in the first class carriage, waiting for the Boat Mail to arrive, a neatly dressed man with tufted hair and another young man wearing a dhoti approached the carriage. The former boarded the carriage and pulled out a Belgian-made Browning automatic pistol. The bullet hit Ashe in the chest and he collapsed. The sound of the pistol shot was absorbed by the howling wind.
After the shooting, Vanchinathan ran along the platform and took cover in the latrine. Some time later he was found dead, having shot himself in the mouth. The pistol recovered from him was empty without any bullets as he just planned to kill himself after killing Ashe and had no intention to hurt anyone other than Ashe In his pocket was found following letter:
I dedicate my life as a small contribution to my motherland. I am alone responsible for this.
The mlechas of England having captured our country, tread over the sanathana dharma of the Hindus and destroy them. Every Indian is trying to drive out the English and get swarajyam and restore sanathana dharma. Our Raman, Sivaji, Krishnan, Guru Govindan, Arjuna ruled our land protecting all dharmas, but in this land they are making arrangements to crown George V, a mlecha, and one who eats the flesh of cows.
Three thousand Madrasees have taken a vow to kill George V as soon as he lands in our country. In order to make others know our intention, I who am the least in the company, have done this deed this day. This is what everyone in Hindustan should consider it as his duty.
I will kill Ashe, whose arrival here is to celebrate the crowning of cow-eater King George V in this glorious land which was once ruled by great samrats. This I do to make them understand the fate of those who cherish the thought of enslaving this sacred land.
I, as the least of them, wish to warn George by killing Ashe.
Vande Mataram. Vande Mataram. Vande Mataram
— sd/-, R. Vanchi Aiyar, Shencottah
The contents of the letter indicated that the murder was religious and caused great apprehension on the Ashe's activities against social evils. The timing of the assassination indicated a protest against the impending coronation.
Vanchi was a close collaborator of Varahaneri Venkatesa Subrahmanya Iyer (normally shortened to V.V.S.Aiyar or Va.Ve.Su Iyer), another activist who sought arms to defeat the British. He trained Vanchinathan to execute the plan in all perfection. They belonged to Bharatha matha Association.
The Tamil Nadu Government built a memorial in Shenkottai at his birthplace.
Legacy:
In the movie Kappalottiya Thamizhan, Actor Balaji played the role of Vanchinathan. Bharathiyar song "Kaattru veliyedai kannammma" was picturised with Gemini Ganesan and Savithri Sivaji Ganesan roled as V. O. Chidambaram Pillai.
The Maniyachchi Railway Station where Vanchinathan shot Ashe, was renamed to Vanchi Maniyachchi Junction Railway Station in remembrance of him.
A controversy:
The Hindu (Tamil) published an article based, what it said, on an interview with Jayakrishnan, who claimed to be the grandson of Vanchinathan. It was said in the article that Jayakrishnan blamed (his grandfather) Vanchinathan for neglecting the wife who was 8 months pregnant at that time. Jayakrishnan has purportedly said "What he (Vanchinathan) did was wrong". Writer Jayamohan has written an article on his website that the article has given wrong information as there was no descendants to Vanchinathan. The only girl child he had, died as an infant while he was still alive. He has stated in the article that in spite of several representation pointing to the untruths in the article, the paper has not published an apology.
The Hindu (Tamil) published an apology admitting that the contents of the (above-mentioned) article on Vanchinathan contained unverified false information and regretted for its publication.
For the first time in the history of independent India, a Dalit outfit paid floral tributes to Collector Robert William d’ Escourt Ashe, who was assassinated by Vanchinathan at Maniyachi Junction 104 years ago. “Since this great Briton was against untouchability and recognised the Dalits as human beings even when the caste-ridden society took all-out measures to oppress them, we pay floral tributes to the slain Collector,” justified members of Aathi Thamizhar Katchi.
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