Swadeshi Steam: V.O. Chidambaram Pillai and the Battle against the British Maritime Empire | A.R. Venkatachalapathy

In 1906, Britain's grip on the world was unassailable. Its navy ruled the seas, and its trade empire spanned the globe. But in the small port town of Tuticorin, a lawyer named V.O. Chidambaram Pillai—known to the world as VOC—had a revolutionary idea that would challenge the might of the empire itself.