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| name = John Thivy
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| order = 1st President of [[Malayan Indian Congress]]
| term_start = 4 August 1946
| term_end = 1947
| deputy =
| monarch = [[George VI]]
| predecessor = ''Position established''
| successor = [[Baba Budh Singh Ji]]
| birth_date = 1904
| birth_place = [[Kuala Kangsar]], [[Perak]], [[Federated Malay States]], [[British Malaya]]
| death_date = 1959
| death_place = [[Kuala Lumpur]], [[Selangor]], [[Federation of Malaya]]
| nationality = [[File:Flag of Malaya.svg|24px]] [[Federation of Malaya|Malaya]] 
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| party = [[Malayan Indian Congress]]
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| native_name = ஜான் திவி
| native_name_lang = [[Tamil language]]
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| office = {{flag|India}}n Commissioner to {{flag|Mauritius}}
| term_start = {{dts|format=dmy|1950|09|02}}
| term_end = {{dts|format=dmy|1953|09|10}}
| predecessor =Dharam Yash Dev
| successor =[[A. M. Sahay]]

| office2 = {{flag|India}}n Ambassador to {{flag|Syria}}
| term_start2 ={{dts|format=dmy|1953|09|10}}
| term_end2 = {{dts|format=dmy|1955||}}
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| successor2 =[[:de:V. M. Madhavan Nair]]

| office3 = {{flag|India}}n Ambassador to {{flag|Italy}}
| term_start3 ={{dts|format=dmy|1955||}}
| term_end3 ={{dts|format=dmy|1955||}}
| predecessor3 =[[Binay Ranjan Sen]]
| successor3 =[[:es:Khub Chand]]

| office4 = {{flag|India}}n Ambassador to {{flag|Netherlands}}<ref>Thivy, presents in [[Huis ten Bosch palace]] [[Juliana of the Netherlands]] an eight-volume biography of [[Mahatma Gandhi]], [https://www.europeana.eu/portal/record/2021656/afbeelding_e8f388ab_ac70_44f6_94bf_d1f834cf7c85.html]</ref>
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| term_end4 ={{dts|format=dmy|1959|06|04}}
| predecessor4 =[[Birendra Narayan Chakraborty|Birendra Narayan Chakravarty]]
| successor4 =[[Raj Krishna Tandon]]

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'''John Aloysius Thivy''' ([[Tamil language|Tamil]]: ஜான் திவி)(1904–1959) was a [[Malaysian Indian|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 [[British Malaya|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 [[Battle of Malaya|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 in the [[Burma campaign|Burma Front]]. He also served in a ministerial cabinet post under Bose' Provisional Government of Free India, the [[Azad Hind]].<ref>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</ref>

After the [[Operation Tiderace|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 Malaysian|Indian]] interests in [[Malayan Union|Malaya]]. He was helped in the setting up 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 [[Template:First Indian Cabinet|Nehru Government]].

==See also==
* [[Indian National Army]]
* [[Janaky Athi Nahappan]]
* [[Malayan Indian Congress]]

==Notes==
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==References==
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20120205012239/http://www.s1942.org.sg/s1942/indian_national_army/freedom.htm Biographies of INA freedom Fighter National Archives of Singapore]
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20121017115936/http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2006-01-20/india/27822421_1_shyam-benegal-forgotten-hero-netaji-research-bureau Times of India]
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20060220052725/http://www.mic.org.my/history.php Malaysian Indian Congress. History]
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20070717083900/http://www.rsi.sg/english/theasianjournal/view/20060825172311/1/.html Subhas Chandra Bose and the Indian National Army. Asian Journal, Radio Singapore International].
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20121104040155/http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P1-82779482.html Reference to the "late John Thivy"]

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