Calamur Viravalli Sundara Sastri (also spelt Sundram or Sundaram, and Sastry, Sastriar, Sastriyar, or Sastrigal) was a leading
Vakil
Vekil or Vakil was the term used for the deputies and ''de facto'' prime ministers of the Mughal Emperor in Mughal administration. He was considered the most powerful person after Emperor in the Mughal Empire. ''Vakil'' was one of the highest posi ...
of the
High Court of Madras
The High Court of Judicature at Madras is a High Court located in Chennai, India. It has appellate jurisdiction over the state of Tamil Nadu and the union territory of Puducherry. It is one of the oldest high courts of India along with Calcutt ...
,
second in the Calamur line to bear the style ''Viravalli,'' and of a family line occupying a prominent position within the
Madras Presidency
The Madras Presidency or Madras Province, officially called the Presidency of Fort St. George until 1937, was an administrative subdivision (province) of British India and later the Dominion of India. At its greatest extent, the presidency i ...
; 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,
and was noted as an orator with 'perfect' diction. He authored the ''Sundararāmāyaṇa''.
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.
[{{Cite book , last=Paul , first=John Jeya , url=https://books.google.com/books?id=WFmbAAAAMAAJ&q=cv+sundram+sastri , title=The Legal Profession in Colonial South India , date=1991 , publisher=Oxford University Press , isbn=978-0-19-562558-5 , language=en]
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