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{{Infobox officeholder<br />
| name = Appajee Varadarajan<br />
| office = [[Judge]] of [[Supreme Court of India]]<br />
| nominator = [[Y. V. Chandrachud]]<br />
| appointer = [[Neelam Sanjiva Reddy]]<br />
| term_start = 10 December 1980<br />
| term_end = 16 August 1985<br />
| office1 = [[Judge]] of [[Madras High Court]]<br />
| birth_date = {{Birth date|df=y|1920|08|17}}<br />
| term_start1 = 1974<br />
| term_end1 = 1980<br />
| death_date = {{Death date|df=y|2009|10|15}}<br />
| death_place = [[Anna Nagar]], [[Chennai]], [[Tamil Nadu]], India.<br />
| nominator1 = [[A. N. Ray]]<br />
| appointer1 = [[Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed]]<br />
| honorific_prefix = Hon'ble Justice<br />
| birth_place = [[Tiruppattur, Tirupattur district|Tirupattur]], [[Madras Presidency]], British India (now Tirupattur district, [[Tamil Nadu]], India)<br />
| website = <br />
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'''Justice A.Varadarajan''' (1920-2009) was a judge of [[Supreme Court of India]].<br />
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== Early life ==<br />
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A. Varadarajan was born into a [[Scheduled Caste]] family at [[Jolarpettai]], Vellore district, Madras Presidency. He was inspired by [[Iyothee Thass]], a pioneer in Dalit activism, during his youth days. He did his matriculation from Municipal High School at Tirupattur, intermediate from [[Voorhees College (India)|Voorhees College]], (Vellore), B.A. from [[Loyola College, Chennai|Loyola College]] (Madras) and LLB from [[Dr. Ambedkar Government Law College]] (Madras).<ref>{{Cite web|last=Vignessh|date=2020-08-18|title=The first Dalit SC judge: Tale of a forgotten luminary|url=https://thefederal.com/states/south/tamil-nadu/the-first-dalit-sc-judge-tale-of-a-forgotten-luminary/|access-date=2020-10-07|website=The Federal|language=en-US}}</ref><br />
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== Career ==<br />
In 1944 he was enrolled as a lawyer and practised in civil and criminal matters on the original and appellate sides. Later he got promoted as Sub-Judge, District and Sessions Judge, Additional Judge and Permanent Judge in 1974.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Supreme Court of India – Former Judges|url=http://164.100.107.37/judges/bio/49_avaradarajan.htm|access-date=2020-10-07|website=164.100.107.37}}</ref><br />
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In 1980 he was nominated as a judge of the [[Supreme Court of India]], being the first [[Dalit]] to reach such position.<ref>{{Cite book|last=Sengupta|first=Arghya|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=wVZxDwAAQBAJ&q=A.Varadarajan+Supreme+Court+of+India&pg=PT89|title=Appointment of Judges to the Supreme Court of India: Transparency, Accountability, and Independence|date=2017-03-21|publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=978-0-19-909662-6|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|title=Caste and Judiciary: Looking for Dalit and Adivasi Judges in Supreme Court of India|work=Round Table India|url=https://roundtableindia.co.in/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=9623:caste-and-judiciary-looking-for-dalit-and-adivasi-judges-in-supreme-court-of-india&catid=119:feature&Itemid=132}}</ref><br />
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Varadarajan retired in 1985 and joined [[Prakash Yashwant Ambedkar|Prakash Ambedkar]] in his efforts for implementing reservations and seeking actions against violence on Dalits.{{citation needed|date=October 2023}}<br />
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