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John Thivy
John Thivy
Indian; Commissioner; to Mauritius
	In office; 2 September 1950 – 10 September 1953
Preceded by	Dharam Yash Dev
Succeeded by	A. M. Sahay
Indian; Ambassador; to Syria
	In office; 10 September 1953 – 1955
Succeeded by	de:V. M. Madhavan Nair
Indian; Ambassador; to Italy
	In office; 1955–1955
Preceded by	Binay Ranjan Sen
Succeeded by	es:Khub Chand
Indian; Ambassador; to Netherlands
	In office; 6 December 1957 – 4 June 1959
Preceded by	Birendra Narayan Chakravarty
Succeeded by	Raj Krishna Tandon

John Thivy
John Thivy
1st President of Malayan Indian Congress
	In office; 4 August 1946 – 1947
Monarch	George VI
Preceded by	Position established
Succeeded by	Baba Budh Singh Ji
Personal details
Born	1904; Kuala Kangsar, Perak, Federated Malay States, British Malaya
Died	1959; Kuala Lumpur, Selangor, Federation of Malaya
Nationality	Malaya; Indian
Political party	Malayan Indian Congress

John Thivy (Tamil: ஜான் திவி)(1904–1959) was a Malayan Indian politician and former lawyer who was the founding president of the Malayan Indian Congress.

Thivy finished schooling at St. Michael's Institution in Ipoh, Perak. He studied law in London, before returning to practise in Malaya. In London, Thivy had a chance to meet Mohandas Gandhi and came to be interested in the Indian independence movement. On his return to Malaya, after getting his law degree in 1932, he became involved with the Indian nationalist movements.

Later, after the fall of Malaya to the Japanese, Thivy's interest was rekindled by a speech given by Subhas Chandra Bose at one of his rallies in 1943. Thivy joined the Indian National Army in 1943 and served on the Burma Front. He also served in a ministerial cabinet post under Bose's Provisional Government of Free India, the Azad Hind.^[2]

After Japan's surrender, John Thivy was held at Changi Prison for collaboration and was only released after India's independence.

On 4 August 1946, Thivy became the 1st and founding President of the Malayan Indian Congress (MIC), which represented Indian interests in Malaya. He was helped in the establishment of the party by other notable individuals such as Janaky Athi Nahappan. The MIC was modelled after the Indian National Congress. The party participated in the Malayan Independence movement.

In 1948, Thivy was appointed as an official to represent India in Southeast Asia by the Nehru Government.

Notes

^ Thivy, presents in Huis ten Bosch palace Juliana of the Netherlands an eight-volume biography of Mahatma Gandhi, [1]
^ Pettibone, Charles, The Organization and Order of Battle of Militaries in World War II, vol. VII, Germany's and Imperial Japan's Allies & Puppet States, p. 412. Trafford Publishing, 2012. ISBN 978-1-4669-0350-0