V. C. Gopalratnam

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Vembakkam Comanduru Gopalratnam, son of V. C. Desikachariar[1][2] was a lawyer, writer, humorist, and legal historian.[1] He wrote the The High Court (A Century Completed), finished just months before his death in 1962.[citation needed] He was also author of Hāsya Nāṭakaṅkaḷ Kaṭṭuraikaḷ, a work in Tamil.[3] A member of the Vembaukum family, he co-edited the quarterly trade journal The Lawyer[4] and was partially resident in Vasantavilas, where he took on as a junior a youthful Randor Guy.[5]

Publications[edit]

A century completed : a history of the Madras High Court, 1862-1962. Madras: Madras Law Journal Office. 1962. OCLC 11687458.

References[edit]

  1. ^ a b "A home of law". The Hindu. 2013-02-12. ISSN 0971-751X. Retrieved 2024-03-21.
  2. ^ "A road straddling two religions". The Hindu. 2013-01-01. ISSN 0971-751X. Retrieved 2024-03-27.
  3. ^ Gopalratnam, V. C. (1944). Hāsya nāṭakaṅkaḷ, kaṭṭuraikaḷ. Tin̲amaṇi veḷiyīṭu. Cen̲n̲ai: Tin̲amaṇi Kāriyālayam. OCLC 39769376.
  4. ^ Gledhill, A. (January 1957). "Lawyer (Quarterly Law Journal). Edited by V. C. Gopalratnam and N. R. Raghavachari. [Published by Madras State Bar Federation, High Court Madras. Inland Rs. 5; foreign 10s. annually.]". International & Comparative Law Quarterly. 6 (1): 194–194. doi:10.1093/iclqaj/6.1.194. ISSN 1471-6895.
  5. ^ MyTimes, Team (2023-04-25). "MYLAPORE TIMES - Tribute: Randor Guy, deep Mylapore connections and loads of Mylapore stories re-told". MYLAPORE TIMES. Retrieved 2024-03-21.