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'''Vembaukum Sadagopacharlu''' (died 1863) was an Indian lawyer, jurist, banker,<ref name=":0">{{Cite book |last=Price |first=Pamela G. |title=Kingship and political practice in colonial India |date=1996 |publisher=Cambridge Univ. Press |isbn=978-0-521-55247-9 |edition=1. publ |series=University of Cambridge Oriental publications |location=Cambridge}}</ref> and statesman, who was the first native Indian member of the [[Madras Legislative Council]], serving from 1861 to until his 1863 death,<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Cqo-DwAAQBAJ&dq=Vembaukum+Sadagopacharlu&pg=PT12|title=Dewan Shashadri Aiyer|last=N.S.Chandrasekhara|date=2016-08-22|publisher=Publications Division Ministry of Information & Broadcasting|isbn=9788123026572|language=en}}</ref> and one of the first Indians to achieve wealth and renown in the courts of British India, doing both alongside his brother, religious reformer and minor polymath [[V. Rajagopalacharlu]], in the [[Madras Presidency|judicial system of the Madras Presidency]], in which they were leading [[Vakil|Vakils]], he himself being the first Indian to become one. He belonged to the influential [[Vembaukum family]].<br />
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== Early life ==<br />
Sadagopacharlu hailed from the village of [[Vembakkam]] near [[Kanchipuram]]. He matriculated from the [[Presidency College, Madras]] in 1858 and studied law. Soon, he enrolled himself as a lawyer, and along with his reportedly "even more brilliant"<ref name=":1" /> brother [[V. Rajagopacharlu|V. Rajagopalacharlu]], emerged as one of the first and foremost Indians in the bar making up a fortune in a short time.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Gopalratnam |first=V. C. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7-pPAQAAIAAJ |title=A Century Completed: A History of the Madras High Court, 1862-1962 |date=1962 |publisher=Madras Law Journal Office |language=en}}</ref> At a time when the typical remuneration of a lawyer of the [[Madras High Court]] was 10,000 rupees for participating in a case,<ref name=":0" /> his personal total compensation over the course of litigation over the adoption of an heir to the [[Ramnad estate]], on which both he and his brother worked, was 150,000 rupees.<ref name=":0" /> The second published case in the Presidency was his, with [[John Dawson Mayne|John D. Mayne]], [[Advocate-General of Madras]] and author of the standard reference text for [[Hindu law|the Hindu customary law of British India]], ''Mayne's Hindu Law,'' as opposing counsel; he himself was the author of the standard reference text on [[Muslim personal law|Muslim customary law in India]], despite only living to 35.<ref name=":1">{{Cite news |date=2012-11-05 |title=The tragedy at Vembakkam |url=https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/chennai/chen-metroplus/the-tragedy-at-vembakkam/article4067612.ece |access-date=2024-03-30 |work=The Hindu |language=en-IN |issn=0971-751X}}</ref> His younger brother would also die prematurely, at 38, shortly after accidentally shooting and killing their sister's husband in 1878.<ref name=":1" /> <br />
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Sadagopacharlu married the sister of his paternal uncle's wife, and his nephew [[V. C. Desikachariar|Sir V. C. Desikachariar]]'s father-in-law took his deceased first wife's niece as his second wife, which facts were cited in the High Court as evidence as to the permissibility of such marriages in Hindu customary law for [[Brahmin|Brahmins]], in relation to [[Iyengar|Iyengars]] as one of the [[Āstika and nāstika|orthodox]] [[Brahminical]] sects and [[Madras district|Madras]] as one district of the Presidency's eight.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Ragavendra Rau And Anr. vs Jayaram Rau on 30 March, 1897 |url=https://indiankanoon.org/doc/684663/ |access-date=2024-03-30 |website=indiankanoon.org}}</ref><br />
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== Politics ==<br />
Sadagopacharlu was nominated to the [[Madras Legislative Council]] in 1861 and served until his death in 1863. [[Gazulu Lakshminarasu Chetty]] was appointed to fill the seat left by his death.<br />
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* {{cite book | title=Madras Rediscovered| last=Muthiah| first=S.|author-link=S. Muthiah |year=2004| publisher=East West Books (Madras) Pvt Ltd| isbn=81-88661-24-4|page=418}}<br />
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