Valangiman Sankaranarayana Srinivasa Sastri

Infobox revolution biography
name=Valangiman Sankaranarayana Srinivasa Sastri
lived=birth date|1869 – death date and age|1946
dateofbirth=birth date|1869
placeofbirth=Valangaiman, Madras Presidency, British India
dateofdeath=death date and age|1946|1869
placeofdeath=Madras, India
movement=Indian independence movement

Valangiman Sankarana-rayana Srinivasa Sastri CH (1869–1946) was an Indian statesman and founder of the Indian Liberal Federation.

Sastri, of poor Brahman background, started his career as a school teacher. In 1915 he became president of the [http://www.indiatogether.org/stories/2002/rd1002.htm Servants of India Society] . He served as a member of the Madras Legislative Council, the central legislature and the council of state established under Government of India Act 1919. In 1922, along with other moderates who wished to cooperate with the government, he left the Indian National Congress and founded the Indian Liberal Federation, serving as its first president.

In 1922 and subsequently, he was sent by the Government of India, to the white dominions and Malaya as part of their effort to improve the conditions for Indian emigrants. He also undertook other public tasks through the 1920s and 1930s. During 1930–31, Sastri took part in the Round Table Conference in London.

=References=

*"Indian national movement and the liberals" by Abha Saxena, Allahabad, India: Chugh Publications, 1986. foreword by A.C. Banerjee.
* [http://www.houseofdavid.ca/Ind_uni.htm#Muldoon Muldoon, Andrew Robert, “Making a `moderate' India: British conservatives, imperial culture and Indian political reform, 1924—1935”]