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Independence and After:
Tuticorin became the citadel of the freedom
struggle in the early 20th Century.In
1906,
the great freedom fighter of India,
V.O.Chidambaram Pillai launched the first Swadeshi
ship "S.S. Gaelia" in British
India.The
post independence era in India witnessed
planned and rapid economic development
in
all spheres.Then the minor port of
Tuticorin
had a flourishing trade handling a
variety
of cargoes meant for the neighbouring
countries
of Sri Lanka, Maldives etc., and the
coastal
regions of India.
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