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'''''[[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]].<ref name="High Court of Tamil Nadu">{{cite web |url=https://www.hcmadras.tn.nic.in/formerjudges.pdf |title=Former Puisne Judges |website=High Court of Tamil Nadu Puisne |access-date=2023-11-21}}</ref> He was awarded the [[Kaisar-i-Hind Medal]] in 1934.<br />
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During Indian independence, he aroused controversy by his opposition to caste-based [[Racial quota|reservation policies]] and [[affirmative action]].<ref>{{cite journal |last1=DESHPANDE |first1=SATISH. |title=Caste and Castelessness: Towards a Biography of the 'General Category.' |journal=Economic and Political Weekly |volume=48 |issue= 15 |year=2013 |pages=32–39 |jstor=23527121 |url=http://www.jstor.org/stable/23527121 |access-date=2023-11-21}}</ref><br />
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Born into the Calamur Viravalli lineage of Vadadeśa Vadama [[Tamils|Tamil]] [[Iyer]] [[Brahmins]], he was a grandson to polyglot and judge [[C. V. Runganada Sastri]], son to litigator [[C. V. Sundara Sastri]], brother-in-law to [[Advocate-General]] and [[Travancore]] [[regent|prime minister-regent]] [[Sir C.P. Ramaswami Iyer]], uncle to [[Ministry of Law and Justice (India)|Minister of Law]] [[C. R. Pattabhiraman]], cousin to ''Shankaracharya'' [[Bharati Krishna Tirtha]], [[C. Aryama Sundaram]], and [[C. Sivaramamurti]], among others.<ref>{{cite book |title=The Who's Who in Madras |date=1940 |publisher=Pearl Press |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=B0LVAAAAMAAJ&q=%22cv%22+viswanatha+sastri |access-date=2023-11-21}}</ref> 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.<ref>{{cite web |title=Madras High Court: Profile of Hon'ble Thiru. Justice C.V. KARTHIKEYAN |url=https://www.hcmadras.tn.nic.in/cvkj.html |access-date=2023-11-21}}</ref><br />
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