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{{Infobox officeholder
| name = Thiruvalangadu Raju Venkatarama Sastri
| honorific-suffix = [[Order of the Indian Empire|CIE]]
| image = TRVenkataramaSastri.jpg
| imagesize =200px
| smallimage =
| caption = T.R. Vankatarama Sastri in 1940
| order1 = Advocate-General of Madras Presidency
| term_start1 =1924
| term_end1 =1928
| governor1 =
| predecessor1 = [[C. Madhavan Nair]]
| successor1 = [[Alladi Krishnaswamy Iyer]]
| birth_date = 6 February 1874
| birth_place = [[Mayavaram]], [[British India]]
| death_date = {{death date and age|1953|07|02|1874|02|06|df=y}}
| death_place = [[Madras]], [[India]]
| nationality = British Indian
| party = [[Indian Liberal Party]]
| spouse =
| relations =
| children =
| residence =
| alma_mater =
| occupation = Lawyer
| profession = [[Attorney-General]], statesman
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'''Thiruvalangadu Raju Venkatarama Sastri''' <small>[[Order of the Indian Empire|CIE]]</small> (6 February 1874 – 2 July 1953) was an [[India]]n lawyer and politician who served as the Advocate-General for [[Madras Presidency]] from 1924 to 1928. He was also known as T.R.V.Sastri.<ref name="sharma">Jagdish Saran Sharma (1981). [https://books.google.com/books?ei=tCClUoHOEpTEsAS4x4Eg&id=hWtDAAAAYAAJ&dq=T.R.V.+Sastri+%22Law+Member+in+the+Government+of+Madras%22&focus=searchwithinvolume&q=%22Law+Member+in+the+Government+of+Madras%22 Encyclopaedia Indica, Volume 2, p.1104.]</ref>

==Early life==
Venkatarama Sastri was born on 6 February 1874 in [[Mayavaram]] (now known as Mayiladuthurai).<ref name="indianreviewp41">{{cite book|title=The Indian Review, Volume 70|pages=41|year=1974|publisher=[[G. A. Natesan]]}}</ref><ref name="oriental">{{cite book|title=The Journal of Oriental research, Madras, Volume 22|publisher=Kuppuswami Sastri Research Institute|year=1952}}</ref> His father, Thiruvalangadi Raju Sastri was a Sanskrit scholar.<ref name="hindu">[https://web.archive.org/web/20041122185410/http://www.hindu.com/2003/07/03/stories/2003070300790900.htm Eminent lawyer's demise, The Hindu, Jul 03, 2003].</ref> Venkatarama Sastri studied at the Municipal High School at Mayavaram, graduated from the Government College at Kumbakonam in 1894, received his B.L degree from the Law College at Madras in 1898 and enrolled in the Madras Court in April 1899 working initially as an apprentice under Sir P.S. Sivaswamy Aiyar.<ref name="hindu"/>

==Career==
On completion of his studies, Sastri enrolled as a [[lawyer]] in 1899<ref name="nmmlp455">{{cite book|title=NMML manuscripts: an introduction|pages=455|publisher=Nehru Memorial Museum and Library|year=2003|ISBN=978-81-87614-05-0}}</ref> and rose to become the Advocate-General of Madras Presidency in 1924 succeeding [[Sir C. P. Ramaswami Iyer]].

Venkatarama Sastri was also the President of the National Liberal Federation of India which in 1945 suggested the formation of a central government represented by all major political parties of India with provisions for minority representation.<ref>{{cite news|title=A Central Govt of Major Parties|newspaper=Indian Express|date=13 November 1945}}</ref>

T.R. Venkatarama Sastri also drafted the RSS constitution, helped lift the ban on [[Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh]] (RSS) and facilitated the release of [[M. S. Golwalkar|M.S.Golwalker]].<ref>S Gurumurthy (16 October 2013). [http://www.thehindu.com/opinion/op-ed/lifting-of-ban-on-rss-was-unconditional/article5237922.ece Lifting of ban on RSS was unconditional], The Hindu.</ref><ref>Vidya Subrahmaniam (17 October 2013). [http://www.thehindu.com/opinion/op-ed/written-constitution-was-indeed-a-precondition/article5237953.ece Written constitution was indeed a pre-condition], The Hindu.</ref> He was a RSS sympathiser and a personal friend of Golwalkar.<ref>Dwarka Prasad Mishra (1978).
[https://books.google.com/books?id=YDxuAAAAMAAJ&q=golwalker+venkatarama&dq=golwalker+venkatarama&hl=en&sa=X&ei=vhSlUsLjHZHFsASE04DgAQ&ved=0CDUQ6AEwAQ Living an era, Volume 2, p.65]</ref>

==Life==
After his tenure as the Advocate-General of Madras Presidency, he served as the Law Member in the Government of Madras,<ref name="sharma"/> having been promoted to that position by [[George Goschen, 2nd Viscount Goschen|George Goschen]] who did not want to offend Brahmins by excluding them from the cabinet.<ref>David Arnold (1977). [https://books.google.com/books?id=Nx8LAQAAIAAJ&q=venkatarama+sastri+advocate&dq=venkatarama+sastri+advocate&hl=en&sa=X&ei=9hWlUtupBcnlsAShj4G4CA&ved=0CGQQ6AEwCQ The Congress in Tamilnad: Nationalist Politics in South India, 1919-1937, p.109]. {{ISBN|0883869586}}. Quote from p.109: ""Goschen had considered appointing a non-Brahmin to what had so far been a Brahmin preserve. He had, however, decided it would be foolish to exclude the Brahmins by excluding them from the Cabinet, and he promoted the Advocate-General, T.R. Venkatarama Sastri to the post,..."</ref> Additionally, Sastri also served as a Member of the Hindu Law Committee, Government of India.<ref>Madras State Bar Federation, (1957). [https://books.google.com/books?id=ZPU2AAAAIAAJ&q=%22TRV+sastri%22&dq=%22TRV+sastri%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=wB-lUuqhFaG2sAT1iICAAQ&ved=0CDUQ6AEwAjge Lawyer, Volume 1, p.61].</ref>

In his long and illustrious career, Venkatarama Sastri served as a member of several committees, such as the Bajpai Commission on Ceylon Refugees, and B.N.Rau Committee on Hindu Code Reform.<ref>Jagdish Saran Sharma (1981). [https://books.google.com/books?ei=tCClUoHOEpTEsAS4x4Eg&id=hWtDAAAAYAAJ&dq=T.R.V.+Sastri+%22Law+Member+in+the+Government+of+Madras%22&focus=searchwithinvolume&q=Hindu+Code+Reform Encyclopaedia Indica, Volume 2, p.1104.]</ref>

Venkatarama Shastri made his home in the Edward Eliots Road, Chennai where he stayed until his demise. A robbery at his home was once reported to the police of which E. N. Purushothaman reminisces in his book "The Police I Served": {{quote|"..She told me of another of one of the great Advocates of Madras, Sri T.R.Venkatrama Sastry, in the Edward Eliots Road. Among the valuables stolen from this house, there was a silver idol of Vigneswara which was presented by the [[Paramacharya]] of Kanchi Kamakoti.<ref>E. N. Purushothaman (1989). [https://books.google.com/books?id=HhTlAAAAMAAJ&q=venkatarama+sastri+advocate+kanchi&dq=venkatarama+sastri+advocate+kanchi&hl=en&sa=X&ei=ExelUqT4OcnLsATfi4DwCw&ved=0CFMQ6AEwBg The Police I Served], p.88-89. Andhra Pradesh Police Academy</ref>}}

==Death and legacy==
Venkatarama Sastri died on 2 July 1953.<ref name="oriental" /> On his death, the then Chief Minister of [[Madras state]], [[C. Rajagopalachari]] said:

{{quote|"The court has lost a legal luminary and I’ve lost a good friend."}}

==Notes==
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==References==
* {{cite news|title=Easy to become judge, not Advocate-General|date=28 November 2009|url=http://www.newstodaynet.com/newsindex.php?id=20411%20&%20section=7|work=News Today}}
* {{cite web|url=http://yabaluri.org/TRIVENI/CDWEB/MrTRVenkataramaSastrisept1931.htm|title=T. R. Venkatarama Sastri}}

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