Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Lady Valiama Narain (1869-1954) was the Tamil Matriarch, a Tamil East Indian immigrant coming from the city of Nagappattinam in the state of Tamil Nadu in southern India. Valiama spent quite a few years on the island of Martinique where she, her mother Peramma,her father Perumal, and sister Alice were indentured. Valiama also known as Meme Veronique or Veronica married at a very early age to a young man by the name of Matrizan and adapted to the french society.