Dewan Bahadur Calamur Viravalli Viswanatha Sastri was an Indian jurist and statesman who served as a justice of the High Court of the Madras Presidency, following and alongside his elder brother Dewan Bahadur Sir C. V. Kumaraswami Sastri.[1] He was awarded the Kaisar-i-Hind Medal in 1934.
During Indian independence, he aroused controversy by his opposition to caste-based reservation policies and affirmative action.[2]
Born into the Calamur Viravalli lineage of Vadadeśa Vadama Tamil Iyer Brahmins, he was grandson to polyglot and judge C. V. Runganada Sastri, son to litigator C. V. Sundara Sastri, brother-in-law to Advocate-General and Travancore prime minister-regent Sir C.P. Ramaswami Iyer, uncle to Minister of Law C. R. Pattabhiraman, cousin to Shankaracharya Bharati Krishna Tirtha, C. Aryama Sundaram, and C. Sivaramamurti, among others.[3] His great-grandson, fellow Madras High Court justice C. V. Karthikeyan, serves on that court today, marking six generations of Calamur Viravalli presence in the judiciary.[4]
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- ^ "Madras High Court: Profile of Hon'ble Thiru. Justice C.V. KARTHIKEYAN". Retrieved 2023-11-21.