Egmore clique

The Egmore group, also faction, clique, or set, was a faction in the Madras Presidency which emerged as opposition to the hegemony of the Mylapore clique, crystallizing around the leadership of C. Sankaran Nair — one of the first non-Brahmins to achieve high office in British India. S. Kasturi Ranga Iyengar, editor-owner of The Hindu, was another crucial early ‘Egmorean’, as was C. Rajagopalachari, who ultimately ousted the Egmore group from the position of power it had achieved in the Indian National Congress, the origins of which substantially lie in the Mylapore-Egmore rivalry. Additional pivotal figures in the early Egmore faction were T. Rangachari, C. Vijayaraghavachariar, and T. M. Nair.