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{{Use dmy dates|date=October 2015}} '''Chunkath Joseph Varkey''', [[Order of St.Patricks the Great|KSG]] (1891&ndash;1953), was an Indian professor, journalist and a former Minister for Education of the [[Madras Presidency]].<ref>{{cite book|last= Burnand|first=Francis Cowley|title=The Catholic who's who and yearbook|publisher=Burns & Oates|year=1941|volume=34|pages=504|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=TVZD0KcNeewC&q=Chunkath+Joseph+Varkey&dq=Chunkath+Joseph+Varkey&client=firefox-a&cd=2}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|last=Farias|first=Kranti K|title=The Christian impact in South Kanara|publisher=Church History Association of India|year=1999|pages=274|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=qNHYAAAAMAAJ&q=Chunkath+Joseph+Varkey&dq=Chunkath+Joseph+Varkey&client=firefox-a&cd=1}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|title=The who's who in Madras: A pictorial who's who of distinguished personages, princes, zemindars and noblemen in the Madras Presidency, Issue 9|publisher=Pearl Press|year=1940|pages=277|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=B0LVAAAAMAAJ&q=C+J+Varkey+1891&dq=C+J+Varkey+1891&client=firefox-a&cd=8}}</ref><br />
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==Biography==<br />
Varkey was born in a [[Syro-Malabar Catholic]] family in 1891. He was a professor of History [[St. Aloysius College (Mangalore)|St. Aloysius College, Mangalore]]. He was also the Secretary of the All India Catholic League, now the [[All India Catholic Union]]. He represented the West Coast Indian Christian Constituency in the [[Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly|Madras Legislative Assembly]] during 1937–42. He was also the founder-editor of ''The Catholic Educational Review''. When the [[C. Rajagopalachari]] led [[Indian National Congress]] took power in the Madras Presidency after winning the [[1937 Madras Presidency legislative assembly election|1937 elections]], Varkey became Secretary for Education. In 1939 he succeeded Subbarayan as the Minister of Education - a post he held till the resignation of the Congress ministry the same year. He organised the All India Catholic League and was made a Knight of St. Gregory by Pope Pius XI.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://archive.catholicherald.co.uk/article/12th-june-1953/5/indian-papal-knight|title= Indian Papal Knight}}</ref><ref name="jp">{{Cite book<br />
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