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V. S. Srinivasa Sastri becomes India's Agent in South Africa

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V. S. Srinivasa Sastri becomes India's Agent in South Africa
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The Union of South Africa received its first Agent from India: V. S. Srinivasa Sastri, a Liberal leader from Madras.

On 27 May 1927 Viceroy Lord Irwin, pressed by Mahatma Gandhi, appointed V. S. Srinivasa Sastri to the Union of South Africa as the first Agent there for India. Sastri was a Madras educator and Liberal politician famed as an orator. He reached South Africa in June 1927 with the task of safeguarding the interests of its Indian community. Kurma Venkata Reddi Naidu took over from him when his term ended in January 1929.

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