Chettur Sankaran Nair (1857-1934)
Prime Minister remembered Chettur Sankaran Nair who was sued by Lieutenant Governor of Punjab Michael O’Dwyer for accusing him of 1919 Jallianwala Bagh massacre.
About Chettur Sankaran Nair
- Served as Permanent Judge of Madras High Court and appointed as Secretary to the Raleigh University Commission (1902).
- Became a member of the Viceroy's Council in 1915 with charge of the Education portfolio.
- Became youngest President of the Indian National Congress (1897, Amraoti Session).
- Social Reforms: He held that those who converted to Hinduism could not be treated as outcastes in Budasna v Fatima judgement (1914).
- In other cases, he upheld inter-caste and inter-religious marriages.
- Literary Work: Gandhi and Anarchy, Madras Review, the Madras Law Journal.