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| honorific-prefix = [[Diwan Bahadur]]<br />Sir<br />
| name = Gopathi Narayanaswami Chetty<br />
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| office1 = Member of the Council of State ([[Imperial Legislative Council (India)|Imperial Legislative Council of India]])<br />
| term_start1 = 1930<br />
| term_end1 = 1936<br />
| governor-general1 = [[E. F. L. Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax]],<br />[[Freeman Freeman-Thomas, 1st Marquess of Willingdon]]<br />
| birth_date = {{Birth date|df=yes|1881|09|28}}<br />
| birth_place = [[Madras]], India<br />
| death_date = {{Death date and age|df=yes|1950|06|13|1881|09|28}}<br />
| death_place = [[Madras]], India<br />
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| profession = merchant,<br/>businessman<br />
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Diwan Bahadur '''Sir Gopathi Narayanaswami Chetty''' {{post-nominals|country=GBR|CIE}} ({{lang-ta|கோபதி நாராயணசுவாமி செட்டி}}; 28 September 1881 – 13 June 1950) was an Indian merchant, landlord, politician, legislator and economist.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=pqnqPdVNFrgC&q=gopathi+narayanaswami+chetty|title=Who was who: 1897-2000|last=St.Martin's Press|first=Great Britain|date=2002|isbn=9780713661255}}</ref><br />
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== Early life ==<br />
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Narayanaswami Chetty was born into the Gopathi balija family. He was the son of Gopathy Mahadeva Chetty. He was educated in Madras. He was an elected President of [[Madras Corporation]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=iuoLAQAAIAAJ&q=G.N.+chetty&pg=PA28|title=The Thesophist|last=Olcott|first=H.S|date=1889|publisher=Thesophical Society, Adyar}}</ref><br />
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== Public life ==<br />
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Narayanaswamy Chetty served as the member of the Council of State, Imperial Legislative Council of India, from 1930 to 1936. He also served as a President of the Madras Corporation. He was a member of the Joint Select Committee of the Reserve Bank of India Bill and played a pivotal role in the formation of the [[Reserve Bank of India]].<ref name="swadeshibankp173">{{cite book|title=A swadeshi bank from South India: a history of the Indian Bank, 1907-1982|pages=173|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=DFovAAAAMAAJ&q=gopathi+narayanaswami+chetty| author=R. K. Seshadri|publisher=Indian Bank|year=1992|isbn=9780861313419}}</ref><br />
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== Honours ==<br />
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Narayanaswamy Chetty was made a [[Companion of the Order of the Indian Empire]] in 1929 and a [[Knights Bachelor]] in 1945.<br />
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G. N. Chetty road in [[T. Nagar]], [[Chennai]] is named after Gopathi Narayanaswami Chetty.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://bankifsccode.com/INDIAN_BANK/TAMIL_NADU/CHENNAI/G_N_CHETTY_ROAD|title=INDIAN BANK, G N Chetty Road Branch, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, BankIFSCcode.com|website=bankifsccode.com|access-date=2020-03-27}}</ref><br />
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