sentences:  Through hard work and shrewd business acumen he became the owner of a prosperous tea plantation, Wavendon estate, in Ramboda in the Nuwara Eliya district.Thondaman attended the newly established local Tamil school in Munna Pudur till 1924, when he left for Ceylon to join his father.At that time Thondaman's father Karuppaia who was initially an estate labour rose to become an estate owner in Nuwara Eliya District where was the first Indian origin Tamil from the indenture laborer stock to own a tea estate in Ceylon.