Chidambaram, Indian politician and Member of Parliament. Alagappa Chettiar, businessman and philanthropist. A. C. Muthiah, Indian industrialist. Kavingar Kannadasan, Famous poet and Cinema Lyricist Raj Chetty, American Economist See also Chettiar Sri Lankan Chetties References Resources Rajeswary Brown. (1993). Chettiar capital and Southeast Asian credit networks in the inter-war period. In G. Austin and K. Sugihara, eds. Local Suppliers of Credit in the Third World, 1750-1960. New York: St. Martin's Press. David Rudner. (1989). "Banker's Trust and the culture of banking among the Nattukottai Chettiars of colonial South India". Modern Asian Studies 23(3), 417–458. Heiko Schrader. (1996). "Chettiar finance in Colonial Asia". Zeitschrift fur Ethnologie 121, 101–126. Chettiar Social groups of Tamil Nadu Indian castes