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Kanthapillai Velupillai Nadarajah (6 July 1905 – October 2000) was a leading Ceylon Tamil lawyer and Member of Parliament.

Early life and family

Nadarajah was born on 6 July 1905. He was one of the four sons of Kalladi Velupillai (Kalladi Velan), a prominent poet, and Atchikuddy. Nadarajah was educated at Jaffna Central College and Parameshwara College, Jaffna. After school he joined Ceylon University College. He then entered Colombo Law College, qualifying as a proctor.

Nadarajah married Gnanamani, daughter of P. S. Eliyatamby. They had a son (Bala).

Career

Nadarajah started practising law in Badulla in 1930. He continued practising in Uva Province for 54 years.

Nadarajah was a member of Badulla Urban Council for more than ten years. He contested the 1947 parliamentary election as an independent candidate in Bandarawela and was elected to Parliament.

Nadarajah was president of the Badulla Saiva Paripalana Sangam and managing trustee of the Kathir-velauthar Swami Temple in Badulla. He was the founder of first Tamil school in Uva and served as the manager of Badualla Saraswathi Minor and Maha Vidayalam for 30 years.

Later life

Nadarajah's family home in Pingarawa was burnt to the ground during the Black July anti-Tamil riots of 1983. Nadarajah fled to Colombo with assistance of J. C. T. Kotelawala, the former MP for Badulla.

References

1. ^ Arumugam, S. (1997). Dictionary of Biography of the Tamils of Ceylon. pp. 109–110.
2. "Result of Parliamentary General Election 1947" (PDF). Department of Elections, Sri Lanka. Archived from the original (PDF) on 24 September 2015.
3. ^ Abeyesekera, Kirthie (29 October 2000). "Former Badulla MP K.V. Nadarajah passes away". The Island (Sri Lanka).

External links

• The Plea That Went Unheeded, Tamil Nation

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Speaker: Alexander Francis Molamure/Albert Peries Prime Minister: D. S. Senanayake/Dudley Senanayake Leader of the Opposition: N. M. Perera
Central Province (15)	M. D. Banda George E. de Silva T. B. Ilangaratne, Tamara Kumari Ilangaratne Senerat Gunewardene R. S. Pelpola Karuppiah Kumaravelu G. R. Motha Abdul Aziz V. T. Nanayakkara E. A. Nugawela T. B. Panabokke H. R. U. Premachandra K. Rajalingam H. B. Rambukwella Abeyratne Ratnayaka H. B. Tenne Savumiamoorthy Thondaman C. V. Velupillai
Eastern Province (7)	A. R. A. M. Abubucker S. U. Ethirmanasingham M. M. Ebrahim M. S. Kariapper Ahamed Lebbe Sinne Lebbe V. Nalliah S. Sivapalan
Northern Province (9)	S. J. V. Chelvanayakam K. Kanagaratnam V. Kumaraswamy G. G. Ponnambalam T. Ramalingam C. Sittampalam C. Suntharalingam Alfred Thambiayah C. Vanniasingam
North Central Province (5)	P. L. Bauddhasara P. B. Bulankulame S. H. Mahadiulwewa T. B. Poholiyadde Maithripala Senanayake
North Western Province (10)	Ivan Dassanayake J. J. Fernando Kavisena Herath I. M. R. A. Iriyagolle Hameed Hussain Sheikh Ismail John Kotelawala Albert Peries Richard Gotabhaya Senanayake Herbert Sri Nissanka Tikiri Banda Subasinghe
Sabaragamuwa Province (10)	C. E. Attygalle D. F. Hettiarachchi N. H. Keerthiratne E. W. Mathew Alexander Francis Molamure Jayaweera Kuruppu N. M. Perera Reginald Perera Harris Leuke Ratwatte Dudley Senanayake Florence Senanayake
Southern Province (12)	H. D. Abeygoonewardane Simon Abeywickrema H. W. Amarasuriya Wijeyananda Dahanayake William de Silva Arthur de Zoysa Walwin de Silva) D. S. Goonesekera Montague Jayawickrama P. Kumarasiri D. A. Rajapaksa Lakshman Rajapaksa V. G. W. Ratnayake W. Wickremasinghe
Uva Province (7)	Leo Fernando J. C. T. Kotelawala K. V. Nadarajah D. Ramanujam J. A. Rambukpota S. M. Subbaiah K. D. Sugathadasa
Western Province (20)	S. W. R. D. Bandaranaike Somaweera Chandrasiri R. A. de Mel T. F. Jayewardene Colvin R. de Silva George R. de Silva A. Ekanayake Gunasinha Cholomondeley Goonewardene Philip Gunawardena Kusumasiri Gunawardena Robert Gunawardena T. B. Jayah M. C. M. Kaleel A. P. Jayasuriya D. P. Jayasuriya J. R. Jayewardene D. D. Karunaratne P. P. Jayawardena Pieter Keuneman Wilmot A. Perera Henry Peiris D. S. Senanayake S. A. Silva H. de Z. Siriwardena
Appointed (6)	E. F. N. Gratiaen Rosslyn Koch F. H. Griffith R. Singleton-Salmon J. A. Martenze J. W. Oldfield S. A. Pakeman G. R. Whitby

• 1905 births
• 2000 deaths
• 20th-century Sri Lankan lawyers
• Alumni of Ceylon Law College
• Alumni of Jaffna Central College
• Alumni of Parameshwara College, Jaffna
• Alumni of the Ceylon University College
• Ceylonese proctors
• Local authority councillors of Sri Lanka
• Members of the 1st Parliament of Ceylon
• People from Northern Province, Sri Lanka
• Sri Lankan Tamil people
• Tamil politicians