V. Sadagopacharlu

Vembaukum Sadagopacharlu (died 1863) was an Indian lawyer, jurist, banker,[1] and statesman, who was the first native Indian member of the Madras Legislative Council, serving from 1861 to until his 1863 death,[2] and one of the first Indians to achieve wealth and renown in the courts of British India, doing both alongside his brother, religious reformer and minor polymath V. Rajagopalacharlu, in the judicial system of the Madras Presidency, in which they were leading Vakils, he himself being the first Indian to become one. He belonged to the influential Vembaukum family.

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