Calamur

The Calamur Viravalli family, inclusive of closely intermarried "merged" lines (e.g. Chetpet, Pennathur) was one of the two preeminent Brahmin dynasties in the Madras Presidency who dominated the Mylapore clique, alongside the Vembaukum family. They were originally Vadama Iyers from Kalambur and nearby hamlets in North Arcot, who traced their ancestry to Appayya Dikshita, and before that, Deshastha movements from the North. They were traditionally by hereditary profession renowned Sanskritists, as with Anantharama, father of patriarch C. V. Runganada Sastri, Anantharama's father, and Anantharama's father's father, but rapidly adapted to the practice and administration of law and English-style governance, with many Calamurs coming to rank among India's most celebrated lawyers, jurists, administrators, and statesmen.

Intercaste adoptions by the clan were, in general, unsuccessful, as in the case of the Raja of Panagal, who was fostered with and raised by C. V. Sundara Sastri, only to adopt diametrically opposed politics, and become the central figure of then-inchoate Anti-Brahminism and Dravidianism. The traditional votive engagement with Sanskrit did not dissipate; 'younger' members were known to be able to fluently communicate in written and spoken Sanskrit, and Sundara Sastri composed the late Mahakavya: Sundararāmāyaṇa, with the unfinished Satīvilasita, while Bhāratīkṛṣṇatīrtha authored the Stotra-Bhāratī-Kaṇṭhahāraḥ and C. Sundararamamurthy wrote the Rasāsvāda-taraṅgiṇī, a commentary on the Rasaniṣyandini of his great-grandfather, Paruthiyur Krishna Sastrigal. Many members were academics, either as their primary occupation, or in conjunction with other work.

Members

 * The Hon. C. V. Runganada Sastri First Indian judge in the colonial era, polyglot, celebrated social reformer in the Madras Presidency
 * Professor C. Chandrasekhara Sastri B.A. FMU founding principal of the Maharaja's College at Vizianagaram as an undergraduate and graduate institution
 * C. V. Sundara Sastri composer of Sundararāmāyaṇa and Satīvilasita
 * Sir Panapakkam Anandacharlu CIE President of the Indian National Congress
 * Judge C. R. Pattabhirama Iyer Mylapore Clique leader
 * Dewan Bahadur Justice Sir C. V. Kumaraswami Sastri Leader of the Bar as a Vakil; youngest-ever judge; Justice of the High Court; Chief Justice; Rowlatt Committee member
 * Dewan Bahadur Justice C. V. Viswanatha Sastri Kaisar-i-Hind Medal.gif Justice of the High Court
 * His Holiness Jagadguru Shankaracharya Saraswati Bharati Krishna Tirtha Ji Maharaj Pontiff of Dwaraka Math, Supreme Pontiff at Govardhwana Math at Puri
 * Vicitracitta C. Sivaramamurti M.A. Ph.D . Padma Shri Ribbon.svg Medal, order (AM 2014.7.12-1).jpg Campbell Gold Medal
 * C. Sundararamamurti composer of Rasāsvāda-taraṅgiṇī
 * Calamur Mahadevan FNA  FASc FNASc FNI FISC FGS F.Pb.S  D.Sc Principal and Professor of Geology at Andhra University
 * N. Subrahmanyam FISC Chair of Modern Geography at the College at Saidapet, President of the Indian Science Congress
 * Dewan Bahadur V. N. Viswanatha Rao Secretary of Finance, Secretary of Education, Secretary of Law; Collector of Tinnevelly, Collector of Tanjore
 * V. N. Srinivasa Rao
 * Dewan Bahadur Sachivottama Sir C. P. Ramaswami Iyer D.Litt  Advocate-General; Law Minister, Home Minister and Vice-President of the Executive Council of the Madras Presidency; Law Minister, Commerce Minister, Communications Minister of All India + Member of the Viceroy's Executive Council; Diwan of Travancore
 * C. R. Pattabhiraman M.P., Minister for Industries; Law Minister of the Republic of India
 * Ambassador-Secretary C. V. Ranganathan Joint Foreign Secretary, Ambassador to Hong Kong, Ethiopia, the USSR, China, and France
 * Chairman-Secretary M. R. Srinivasan FNAE FIE Ph.D. Padma Shri Ribbon.svg Medal, order (AM 2014.7.12-1).jpg Chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission; Secretary of Atomic Energy; Founder-Chairman of the Nuclear Power Corporation of India, Planning Commission
 * Professor Sharada Srinivasan FRAS FAAAS Ph.D. Padma Shri Ribbon.svg Professor at the National Institute for Advanced Studies


 * Nandita Krishna Jagannathan Ph.D. D.Litt Nari Shakti Laureate, Stree Ratna recipient


 * S. Chinny Krishna FIE  FIChemE Founder, Blue Cross of India; Vice-Chairman, Animal Welfare Board of India; Chairman Emeritus, Federation of Indian Animal Protection Organisations


 * Raja Sir Panaganti Ramarayaningar Raja of Panagal Prime Minister of the Madras Presidency,  Member of the Imperial Legislative Council of India
 * Justice Thiru C. V. Karthikeyan Justice of the High Court
 * C. Aryama Sundaram
 * C. V. Karthik Narayanan President of Standard Motor Products, President of the Automotive Research Association of India, President of the Society of Indian Automobile Manufacturers
 * C. V. Seshadri Ph.D. Professor, Dean, and Chair of Chemical Engineering at IIT Kanpur, Jamnalal Bajaj Award Laureate
 * Rao Saheb Calamur Chandrasekhara Iyer Sub-Registrar of Madras, Assistant Registrar of the High Court
 * Hariram Sastri
 * Shakuntala Jagannathan