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Sundara Sastri Satyamurti (August 19, 1887〔(The Hindu:Glimpses of a great leader's life,August 22, 2006 )〕 – March 28, 1943) was an Indian independence activist and politician. He was acclaimed for his rhetoric and was one of the leading politicians of the Indian National Congress from the Madras Presidency, alongside S. Srinivasa Iyengar, C. Rajagopalachari and T. Prakasam. Satyamurti is regarded as the mentor of K. Kamaraj, Chief Minister of Madras state from 1954 to 1962. Born in 1887 in Thirumayam in the princely state of Pudukkottai, Satyamurti studied at the Maharajah's College, Madras Christian College and the Madras Law College. After practising as a lawyer for some time, Satyamurti entered politics at the suggestion of S. Srinivasa Iyengar, a leading lawyer and politician, who would later become his mentor. Satyamurti participated in protests against the Partition of Bengal, Rowlatt Act and the Jallianwala Bagh massacre and the Simon Commission. Satyamurti was jailed in 1942 for his activities during the Quit India Movement. He was later released, but died on March 28, 1943, due to heart failure. Satyamurti was the President of the provincial wing of the Swaraj Party from 1930 to 1934 and the Tamil Nadu Congress Committee from 1936 to 1939. He was a member of the Imperial Legislative Council from 1934 to 1940 and Mayor of Madras from 1939 to 1943. ==Early life== S.Satyamurti was born at Thirumayam in Pudukkottai state on August 19, 1887. At school he was a fine and diligent student, characteristics which he carried on into his political career. He graduated from the prestigious Madras Christian College and later went on to practice law as an advocate before entering in the national movement. He plunged into politics at an early age winning college elections and eventually emerging as one of the foremost leaders of the Indian National Congress and a doyen of the freedom movement. In 1919, when the Congress decide to send its representative to the Joint Parliamentary Committee (of the UK) to protest the Montagu-Chelmsford reforms and the Rowlatt Act, thirty-two-year-old Sathyamurthi was chosen as a delegate.〔(A born freedom-fighter and his close ties by Lakshmi Krishnamurti, The Hindu-125 Years Special Supplement, Sep 13,2003 )〕 When Sri. Sathyamurthy was in Britain, he functioned as the London Correspondent of ''The Hindu'', in place of the actual Correspondent who had taken a 10-days leave of absence. He was known for his honesty, his integrity, his belief in racial, communal and religious harmony and equality, and his firm belief in constitutional government and parliamentary democracy in India, which led him to take a view opposed to Gandhiji's which in the 1920s was not for participating in the colonial legislature. He was also noted to be strongly opposed to the Caste System in Hinduism. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「S. Satyamurti」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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