Sastri, Srinivasa

Sastri, Srinivasa

▪ Indian statesman
in full Valangiman Sankarana-rayana Srinivasa Sastri
born Sept. 22, 1869, Madras, India
died April 17, 1946, Madras

      liberal Indian statesman and founder of the Indian Liberal Federation, who served his country under British colonial rule in many important posts at home and abroad.

      Sastri was born of poor Brahman parents. He began his career as a schoolmaster, but his interest in public causes and his powers of oratory soon combined to bring him national fame. In 1907 he joined the political and reform movement of the Servants of India Society, of which he became president in 1915. He was a member of the Madras Legislative Council and was elected to the central legislature in 1916. He welcomed the Government of India Act (Government of India Acts) of 1919, by which, for the first time, control over some aspects of provincial government passed to Indian ministers responsible to the Indian electorate. Elected to the new council of state established under the reforms, he found himself increasingly out of sympathy with the dominant group in the nationalist Congress Party, which declined to cooperate in the reforms and preferred methods of civil disobedience. He therefore left the Congress Party and founded the Indian Liberal Federation, of which he was president, in 1922.

      In the same year, the government sent him to Australia, New Zealand, and Canada in an effort to improve the position of Indians living in those countries. In 1926 he was sent to South Africa for a similar purpose, and in 1927 he was appointed India's agent-general there. Two years later he was appointed a member of the Royal Commission on Labour in India. The Indian government also appointed him to report on the conditions of Indian labour in Malaya. During 1930–31 he took an active part in the Round Table Conference in London to discuss proposals for Indian constitutional reform. From 1935 to 1940 he served as the vice-chancellor of the Annamalai University in Madras state.

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