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{{Short description|Ceylon Tamil lawyer and Member of Parliament}}
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{{Infobox officeholder
|honorific-prefix = [[The Honourable|Hon.]]
|name = Kanthapillai Velupillai Nadarajah
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|constituency_MP1 = [[Bandarawela Electoral District|Bandarawela]]
|parliament1 = Ceylon
|term_start1 = 1947
|term_end1 = 1952
|predecessor1 = seat created
|successor1 = [[K. D. Sugathadasa]]
|birth_date = {{Birth date|1905|07|06|df=yes}}
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|death_date = October 2000
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|party = [[Independent politician]]
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|spouse = Gnanamany née Eliyatamby
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|children = Bala (son)
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|alma_mater = [[Jaffna Central College]]<br />[[Parameshwara College, Jaffna|Parameshwara College]]<br />[[Ceylon University College]]
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'''Kanthapillai Velupillai Nadarajah''' (6 July 1905 – October 2000) was a leading [[Ceylon Tamil]] lawyer and Member of Parliament.

==Early life and family==
Nadarajah was born on 6 July 1905.<ref name=Arumugam>{{cite book|last=Arumugam|first=S.|title=Dictionary of Biography of the Tamils of Ceylon|url=http://www.noolaham.org/wiki/index.php?title=Dictionary_of_Biography_of_the_Tamils_of_Ceylon|year=1997|pages=109–110}}</ref> He was one of the four sons of Kalladi Velupillai (Kalladi Velan), a prominent poet, and Atchikuddy.<ref name=Arumugam/> Nadarajah was educated at [[Jaffna Central College]] and [[Parameshwara College, Jaffna]].<ref name=Arumugam/> After school he joined [[Ceylon University College]].<ref name=Arumugam/> He then entered [[Colombo Law College]], qualifying as a proctor.

Nadarajah married Gnanamani, daughter of P. S. Eliyatamby.<ref name=Arumugam/> They had a son (Bala).<ref name=Arumugam/>

==Career==
Nadarajah started practising law in [[Badulla]] in 1930.<ref name=Arumugam/> He continued practising in [[Uva Province]] for 54 years.<ref name=Arumugam/>

Nadarajah was a member of Badulla Urban Council for more than ten years.<ref name=Arumugam/> He contested the [[1947 Ceylonese parliamentary election|1947 parliamentary election]] as an [[Independent (politician)|independent]] candidate in Bandarawela and was elected to [[Parliament of Ceylon|Parliament]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.slelections.gov.lk/pdf/Results_1947%20GENERAL%20ELECTION.PDF |title=Result of Parliamentary General Election 1947 |publisher=Department of Elections, Sri Lanka |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150924115557/http://www.slelections.gov.lk/pdf/Results_1947%20GENERAL%20ELECTION.PDF |archive-date=2015-09-24 }}</ref><ref name=TI291000>{{cite news|last=Abeyesekera|first=Kirthie|title=Former Badulla MP K.V. Nadarajah passes away|url=http://www.island.lk/2000/10/29/opinio02.html|newspaper=[[The Island (Sri Lanka)]]|date=29 October 2000}}</ref>

Nadarajah was president of the Badulla Saiva Paripalana Sangam and managing trustee of the Kathir-velauthar Swami Temple in Badulla.<ref name=Arumugam/> He was the founder of first Tamil school in Uva and served as the manager of Badualla Saraswathi Minor and Maha Vidayalam for 30 years.<ref name=Arumugam/>

==Later life==
Nadarajah's family home in Pingarawa was burnt to the ground during the [[Black July]] anti-Tamil riots of 1983.<ref name=TI291000/> Nadarajah fled to [[Colombo]] with assistance of [[J. C. T. Kotelawala]], the former MP for [[Badulla Electoral District (1947-1989)|Badulla]].<ref name=TI291000/>

==References==
{{Reflist}}

==External links==
* [http://www.tamilnation.co/indictment/indict029.htm The Plea That Went Unheeded, Tamil Nation]

{{Members of the 1st Parliament of Ceylon}}

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[[Category:1905 births]]
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[[Category:20th-century Sri Lankan lawyers]]
[[Category:Alumni of Ceylon Law College]]
[[Category:Alumni of Jaffna Central College]]
[[Category:Alumni of Parameshwara College, Jaffna]]
[[Category:Alumni of the Ceylon University College]]
[[Category:Ceylonese proctors]]
[[Category:Local authority councillors of Sri Lanka]]
[[Category:Members of the 1st Parliament of Ceylon]]
[[Category:People from Northern Province, Sri Lanka]]
[[Category:Sri Lankan Tamil politicians]]

K. V. Nadarajah - Revision history

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