An eminent jurist, Sir, C. Sankaran Nair was a judge of the Madras High Court and a member of the Viceroy’s Council. In politics he was a conservative constitutionalist who believed that self-government could be achieved only through relentless constitutional pressure, backed by hard and unrelenting work. A stern opponent of all nationalist extremes, he was out of sympathy with Gandhi’s method of non-violence non-co-operation. After giving up his portfolio in ...
