Calamur Viravalli Sundara Sastri (also spelt Sundram or Sundaram, and Sastry, Sastriar, Sastriyar, or Sastrigal) was a leading Vakil of the High Court of Madras,[1] second in the Calamur line to bear the style Viravalli, and of a family line occupying a prominent position and status within the Madras Presidency; a "giant" of Madras jurisprudence, with a "very large" practice on the Original Side, which he shared with his partner and adoptive brother, Sir P. Ananda Charlu. Sundara Sastri published a Revised Set of the Rules of Practice for Original side litigation, which became de rigueur,[2] and was noted as an orator with 'perfect' diction. He authored the Sundararāmāyaṇa.
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Alongside K. P. Viswanatha Iyer, Sir C. Sankaran Nair, P.V. Krishnaswami Chetty, Sir V. Bhashyam Iyengar, and Sir P Ananda Charlu, he was one of only six Vakils to occupy two sets of chambers simultaneously.[3]
References
edit- ^ Price, Pamela G. (February 1989). "Ideology and Ethnicity under British Imperial Rule: 'Brahmans', Lawyers and Kin-Caste Rules in Madras Presidency". Modern Asian Studies. 23 (1): 151–177. doi:10.1017/S0026749X00011446. ISSN 1469-8099.
- ^ Gopalratnam, V. C. (1962). A Century Completed: A History of the Madras High Court, 1862-1962. Madras Law Journal Office.
- ^ Paul, John Jeya (1991). The Legal Profession in Colonial South India. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-562558-5.