User:Mahajana College

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Pavalar T.A.Thuraiappahpillai, who was the founder of Mahajana started his career as a teacher and later became the Head master of Tellippalai American Mission school which is presently known Union College. His long teaching career along with the anxiety to educate the people of his village had made him to think of venturing into the field of education further. Although he was fairly happy and well liked by people, he had certain dissatisfaction with the missionary. Inspiration and challenge posed by the Seminary in those days coupled with the service to our community at large had stimulated the intellectual upsurge which had helped to create the Tamil Renaissance. The founder, who was instrumental in those days in setting up Post Office, Railway Station, Cooperative Society and other institutes and establishments at Tellippalai, had resigned from the Headmastership of the American Mission School in early part of 1910 and had started teaching few pupils at his house on the same day itself. This small school was growing steadily day by day. He was well admired by the people as he had taken this as a great service to the people of the village. He later had shifted the school to the location where the present Mahajana is and had named the school as Mahajana High School- Peoples School. The school was growing steadily during his nineteen year teaching career at the school and he passed away on 24th June 1929. During his teaching career he had written so many Tamil poems and these were later compiled on his birth centenary celebrations (1972) in the form of “SINTHANAICHOLAI” BY Mr.A.Sivanesaselvan one of Mahajana’s distinguished old boys. His untimely death had created a vacuum both at home and at the school. At this hour of crisis my grandfather’s brother in law Mr.S.Chinnappah took over the administration of the school as the Headmaster and carried on admirably well under those circumstances.