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'''Calamur Chandrasekhara Sastri''' (1854–1887), sometimes '''Sastry or Sastriyar''',<ref>{{Cite book |last=Jois |first=Rama |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=V552bAz5xFAC |title=Legal and Constitutional History of India: Ancient, Judicial and Constitutional System |date=April 2004 |publisher=Universal Law Publishing |isbn=978-81-7534-206-4 |language=en}}</ref> was the first [[Principal (education)|Principal]] and Professor of English and Sanskrit of the [[Maharajah's College]] at [[Vizianagaram]] from his appointment in 1875,<ref>{{Cite book |last=Madras |first=University of |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-eANAAAAQAAJ |title=The Madras University Calendar |date=1879 |language=en}}</ref> developing it from a [[secondary school]] with four teachers into a [[Graduate school|graduate institution]] before his death at the age of 32 in 1887, with the support of the contemporaneously reigning [[Maharaja of Vizianagaram|Maharajas of Vizianagaram]], [http://mansasedu.org/Pusapati_Vijayarama_Gajapathi_Raju_III.html Pusapati Vijayarama Gajapathi Raju III] and [[Pusapati Ananda Gajapati Raju]].<ref name=":1">{{Cite web |title=The Indian Geographical Society (IGS) |url=https://igschennai.org/founder1.php |access-date=2024-03-23 |website=igschennai.org}}</ref><ref name=":0">{{Cite book |last=Sivaramamurti |first=C. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=VMHqAAAAMAAJ |title=Chitrasūtra of the Vishṇudharmottara |date=1978 |publisher=Kanak Publications |language=en}}</ref> He was the first Indian principal of any South Indian college at the time.

Sastri was born to C. Sivarama Sastri and his wife Lakshmi, into the Calamur dynasty; his nephew [[C. Sivaramamurti]] dedicated his [[Vishnudharmottara Purana|Chitrasūtra of the Vishṇudharmottara]] to him and credited him with raising his father, [[C. V. Sundara Sastri|C. Sundara Sastri]].<ref name=":0" /> He was also maternal uncle to [[N. Subrahmanyam]]<ref name=":1" /> and [[Bharati Krishna Tirtha]],<ref>{{Cite book |last1=Kandasamy |first1=W. B. Vasantha |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Wx_eBAAAQBAJ |title=Vedic Mathematics, 'Vedic' or 'Mathematics': A Fuzzy & Neutrosophic Analysis: A Fuzzy and Neutrosophic Analysis |last2=Smarandache |first2=Florentin |date=December 2006 |publisher=Infinite Study |isbn=978-1-59973-004-2 |language=en}}</ref> and namesake to his cousin ''Rao Saheb'' Calamur Chandrasekhara Iyer, Sub-Registrar of Madras and Assistant Registrar of the High Court.<ref name=":1" />

After the death of a young [[Gurajada Apparao]]'s father, Sastri took him in, covering his expenses and fees; Apparao would revere him as a [[father figure|father-figure]] thereafter.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Suryanarayana |first=Peri |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=kVMwAAAAMAAJ |title=The Life and Greatness of Sri Gurajada Venkata Apparao |date=1968 |publisher=Vignana Sahiti Publications |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last=Veṅkaṭēśvararāvu |first=Nārla |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=tYwOAAAAYAAJ |title=Gurazada |date=1979 |publisher=Sahitya Akademi |language=en}}</ref> Apparao's ability to speak [[English language|English]] was substantially owed to Sastri.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Rāmānujarāvu |first=Dēvulapalli |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=62xYAAAAMAAJ |title=The Gurazada Souvenir |date=1962 |publisher=Gurazada Centenary Committee, Andhra Pradesh |language=en}}</ref>

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C. Chandrasekhara Sastri - Revision history

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