C. Sankaran Nair was a lawyer, judge, and a nationalist leader who presided over the Indian National Congress in 1897. He advocated for Indian self-government with Dominion Status and criticized the British rule in his famous Minutes of Dissent. PM recently remembered Sir Sankaran Nair , a nationalist and jurist who famously fought a courtroom battle against British officials involved in the Jallianwala Bagh massacre of 1919. Sir Chettur Sankaran Nair was born in 1857 in an aristocratic family from Mankara village, located in Malabar’s Palakkad district (present-day Kerala). Sankaran Nair famous judgments: Budasna v Fatima (1914), he ruled that those who converted to Hinduism could not be treated as outcastes. He played a key role in the Montagu-Chelmsford Reforms (1919), which increased Indian participation in administration. He resigned from the Viceroy’s Council in protest after the Jallianwala Bagh massacre.
