Diwan Bahadur Sir Calamur Viravalli Kumaraswami Sastri (19 July 1870 – 24 April 1934) was an Indian jurist and Sanskrit scholar who served as a judge of the Madras High Court and member of the Rowlatt Committee. Scion of an eminent family of Iyer Brahmins descending from his grandfather, C. V. Runganada Sastri, he was brother to fellow High Court justice Dewan Bahadur C. V. Viswanatha Sastri, and brother-in-law to eminent lawyer and statesman C. P. Ramaswami Iyer, as well as uncle to MP and Minister for Industries, and later Minister for Law, C. R. Pattabhiraman, as well as Shankaracharya Swami Bharati Krishna Tirtha Maharaj, supreme pontiff of the Dwaraka Math and then the Govardhan Math.[1]

Early life

Kumaraswami Sastri was born in Madras in 1870, the eldest son of C. V. Sundara Sastri.[2] Kumaraswami Sastri was the grandson of C. V. Runganada Sastri, polyglot and one of the first Indians to serve in the Madras Legislative Council.[2] He had three brothers and a sister, Seethammal, who married Sir C. P. Ramaswami Iyer.

Kumaraswami Sastri graduated from the Presidency College and Law College, Madras, where he won the Elphinstone Thompson and Morehead Law scholarships. He also won the Innes Medal.[2]

Career

Sastri started his career as a lawyer of the Madras High Court in 1894.[3] After serving as a lawyer, Sastri eventually became Judge of the Madras Small Causes Court.[2] He was awarded the "Diwan Bahadur" title while serving as the District Judge of Berhampur in 1911.[2]

In 1914, Sastri was appointed judge of the Madras High Court.[3] He was a member of the infamous Sedition Committee also known as Rowlatt committee under Justice Sidney Rowlatt, which resulted in the infamous Rowlatt Act. He was knighted in the 1924 New Year Honours list.[4]

Death

Sastri died in Madras in 1934, aged 63.[1]

Notes

  1. 1 2 "Obituary: Sir Kumaraswami Sastri". The Times. 25 April 1934. p. 9.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 Bhargava, Prag Narain (1912). Supplement of Who's who in India. Lucknow: Newul Kishore Press. p. 72.
  3. 1 2 Yves Dezalay; Bryant G. Garth (2010). Asian Legal Revivals: Lawyers in the Shadow of Empire. University of Chicago. p. 71.
  4. ↑ The London Gazette, 1 January 1924
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