Famous Kamma Social Reformers

TripuraneniRamaswamyChowdary :
The Kaviraju (As he is popularly known in Andhra Predesh), a fearless freedom fighter, a great native poet and an uncompromising rationalist, was born in a farmer's family in village Angaluru, Krishna District, Andhra Pradesh, on the 15th January, 1987.His entirefamily comprised of literati and in his childhood,he wanted to learn Sanskrit, but was put off by the traditional pundits.ShriRamaswamy's zeal and quest led him to the study of sanskrit andto a very thorough understanding and critical study and analysis of the Vedas, Upanishads, Puranas and Itihasas. He concluded that the decadence of Hindu society was due to misinterpretation of our great Indian texts and that there is no sanction for the caste system or for untouchability and that it is the vested and self-interest of the privileged section of the societythat has been keeping millions in ignorance,illiteracy, superstitious beliefs and degraded status. He took to intensive and extensive propagation of reform through his poetry, dramas,lengthy dissertations and extensive discourses.

He used his considerable literary talents to write beautifully in Telugu to lead people torational thought.His works on.Bhagwad Gita,SootaPurana, SambukavadhaKhooni, RanaPratap and KurukshetraSangramam stirred the masses to rational thought and action.Hesaw that social reform and awakening of themasses were inextricably linked up with the freedom movement.His songs and Satakas inspired people to participate in Gandhiji's Satyagraha Movements. He demystified the marriage rituals by writing in Telugu VivahaVidhi and conducting the marriages in a simple, meaningful way and also preserving the solemnity and dignity that our ancients had built intothe Hindu marriage.
He studied in London and Dublin tobecome a Bar-at-law but gave up is lucrativepractice to propagate social reform throughhis iterary talents. As Chairman of Tenali Municipality, he put andend to all irrational and traditional practices and rituals like animal sacrifices and superstitious observances, unmindful of popularity, but upholding his beliefs and rational thought He died in 1943.
The Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi paid attribute to him for his patriotic, reformist andliterary contributions and the Government of Andhra Pradesh installed his statue as one of the Telugu greats, on the picturesque Tank Bound in Hyderabad.
The Department of Posts issued a commemorative stamp on KavirajuTripuraneniRamaswamyChowdary in the series 'India's struggle for freedom'.

DuggiralaBalaramaKrishnayya :
He was born in the year 1905 in the village Angaluru, Krishna district. He studied Talugu, Sanskrit, and Hindi literature. He was well versed in Bengali, Gujarati and Urdu. He studied for 3 years at Hindi Vidyapeeth, Allahabad, was arrested at Allahabad in 1921 for participating Black Flag Demonstration against the visit of Prince of Wales. He was detained from 10-09-42 to 9-12-44 in Vellore and Tanjaore jails during the "Quit India movement". He encouraged widow marriages, and worked for the removal of untouchability. The Andhra Mahasabha under the president ship of Sri.S.RadhaKrishnana conferred the title "BouddhaVangmaya Brahma" on him in 1927 for his illustrious work on "Buddism". He worked in the Kisan Movement. He was member AICC for 5 years, was member Loksabha.

Raja VasireddiDurgaSadasiveswaraPrasad :
He was born on April 11, 1899 at Jayanthipuram, Nandigamataluq, Krishna district. His father VenkatadriNAidu was a Landlord (Zamindar). He was well conversant with Telugu, Hindi and Sanskrit. He joined the Congress party in 1921, and started a Kahdi Production center at Jayanthipuram during the "Non co-operation Movement". He offered individual Satyagraha and was sentenced on 5-12-1940 to three months S.I and a fine of Rs.750/- in default of which was to undergo further 3 months S.I. He was sent to the Vellore and Tiruchirapalli jails for incarceration. He also associated with Quit India Movement, and gave shelter to a number of refugees from the erstwhile Hyderabad state during 1947-48 "Join Indian Union Movement". He was President NandigamaTaluk Board. also served as member and President of Krishna District Board., member, legislative Assembly, Composite Madras State 1937. He did research in Buddhist literature, and translated "Dharmpatha" works in to Telugu.

GottipatiBrahmayya :
He was born on 3rd December 1898 at Ghantasala. He was a Matriculate. He was populatly known as "RytuPedda". He organised library movement and adult education movement in 1917. Hw was President of DCC during 1922-23. He was also President of Bandar Taluq Board during 1927-28. He was founder of Khadi producers and consumers Society at Ghantasala Village. He was one of the pioneers of ZamindariRytu Movement in Andhra Pradesh. He prominently participated in the boycott of the Simon Commission. He was sentenced on 15-03-30 to one year and six months R.I for participating in the black flag demonstration against Governor’s visit to Machilipatnam. He took part in the Civil Disobedience Movement and was sentenced on 15-01-1932 to undergo R.I for 2 years and also to pay a fine of Rs.1000/-. He was responsible for temple entry of Harijans in Ghantasala in 1933. He was President of 16th Andhra Political Conference held at Nandhyal in 1937. He was General Secretary of Andhra Provincial Congress Committee during 1939-40. He was detained from 28-8-42 under D.I.R in the Vellore and Tanjavur jails during the Quit India Movement. He was President of APCC from 1962-64. He was also Chairman of Andhra Pradesh Legislative Council from July 1964 to June 1968. He died in the year 1984.

Anne Anjayya :
He was born in the year 1905 at Mudunur. He joined the Non-Co-operation Movement in 1920 and worked as volunteer. He was sentenced to 6 months R.I and a fine of Rs.1000/- during the 1930 Salt Satyagraha Movement for leading a batch of volunteers. He served the cause of Harijanupliftment as treasurer and President of the Krishna district HarijanSevakSangham from 1934-36. He established "VayojanaVignanaPathalsala" in 1940 and trainedvolunteers for the 1942 Quit India Movement. He went underground during the 1941 movemnt and organised anti-war activities including publication of anto-government buletin named "Ready". He was the president of the Andhra Branch of the Forward Block started by Subash Chandra Bose. He ran the "Congress" the underground paper to propagate the Quit India Movement for which he was arrested and detained from 14-12-1942 to 4-9-45 in the Vellore and Amaravati jails. He died on June 22, 1975.

KalluriChandramouli :
He was born in November 1898 at Moparru. He was educated in Scotland, 1924 and obtained B.Sc degree. He joined the Congress organisation in 1926 and took part in the Salt Satyagraha movement and was sentenced on June 1930 to one year R.I. He was intemed in the Bellary and Vellore central jails also suffered one year R.I in 1932 in Rajahmundry, Vellore, Madhurai central joils. He was detained from 3-9-42 to 1-7-43 in the Vellore central jail and was transfered on 2-7-43 to the penitentiary jail, Madras for treatment.

He was a member, Legislative Assembly Composite Madras State from 1937 to 1946. He was the President, District Board Guntur and also member, A.I.C.C. He was minister for Religoius Endowments in the Gopala Reddy Cabinet in Andhra Pradesh State till 1956 and also Minister for co-operation and Endowments in the Sanjeeva Reddy Cabinet in 1960. He was Chairman TTD Trust Board 1962-63.

N.G.Ranga :
He was born Nov, 7 at Nidubrolu, Guntur District. He abtained his B.Litt. from Oxford University London in 1926. He is popularly called as "Father of the Indian Kissan Movement". He is the first farmers leader in India who focused the attention of the country on kissan problems and land tenancy laws. He started his political career as a congressvolunteer in 1917. He joined as professor of economics and political science in the Pachiappacollege, Madras in 1927. He resigned his professorship and joined in the National Movemnet in 1930. He organisedZamindariRyots campaign in Venkatagiri, Nellore district. He was member, AICC during 1931-51. He courted imprisonment for one year from 25-11-1931 in the Rajahmundry and Vellore jails. He was member Central Legislative Assembly, 1934-46. He was President of All India Kissan Congress in 1936 and was it's general Secretary in 1938. He defied internment order in 1940 and lead the kisaan agitation in the Mandasa Estate of Srikakulam District and sentenced to one year jail. He went underground fallowing the Quit India Resolution.

He was APCC President during 1946-51. He was member of Provisional Parliament during 1947-51. He was Founder President of All India Weavers Congress from 1947 till his death. He was Founder President of KrishikarLok Party 1951-53. He was Vice-President of National Co-Operative Congress 1952-60. He founded Land Mortgage Banks and Co-Operative Marketing Societies. He was member, Rajyasabha 1952-57. Was member of Loksabha 1957-70. He was General Secretary fo Congress Parliamentary Party 1958-59. He was President of All India Swatantra Party 1959-69. He was one of the founders on INTUC. He rejoined the Congress party in 1971. He represented India at several International Conferences on Agriculture, Labor and Parliamentary affairs. Author of several works among them being the "Credo of World Peasantry", "Kissan Speaks", "Revolutionary Peasants", "Bapu Blesses", "Fight fro Freedom" and also a book entitled " Memories of Bharathi Devi". He was an MP till 1991. He died in 1995.

AvulaSambasivaRao :
Born in the early 1900s into a prosperous family in a remote village in South India, he was the apple of his mother's eye. He lost his father when he was still a toddler, but his mother brought him up just like a man would. His mother instilled in him the moral values and principles that make him so unique. He went to the local village school till high school but then went on to study law in one of the most prestigious law schools in South India. His determination and integrity are just a couple of his many outstanding qualities. He was completely different from everyone else. In those days when going to college was considered a privilege, he had no airs about it whatsoever. He was always his simple self, in typical South Indian attire. With the death in July of Justice AvulaSambasivaRao at the age of 86, the Indian Humanist movement lost one of its great leaders. As Chief Justice of the Andhra Pradesh High Court, Ombudsman for Andhra Pradesh state, and Vice Chancellor of Andhra University, Justice SambasivaRao was the finest example of non-religious morality, rectitude, and discipline.

After practicing for many years as a successful lawyer, he went on to become a judge and then the Chief Justice of the High Court of Andhra Pradesh, a state in South India. He has since held numerous prestigious positions and has made a difference in many lives. He has always provided his employees with the best treatment and has provided raises to them as well. Hundreds of employees in the High Court of Andhra Pradesh still idolize him for this.

NarisettiInnaiah:
InnaiahNarisetti (31 Oct 1937) is a writer and humanist from India. A longtime journalist and translator, he currently serves as the chair of the Indian branch of the Center for Inquiry, a secular non-profit organization "dedicated to promoting and defending science, reason, and free inquiry in all aspects of human interest."

Narisetti was born in PathaReddiPalem village in ChebroluPanchayat, TenaliTaluq, Guntur District, Andhra Pradesh, India. He went to Roman Catholic school at the village and later in Chebrolu, and then to Surya DevaraNarasaiah High School in Chebrolu, where he graduated in 1952. From 1953 to 1958 he went to college at Andhra Christian College, Guntur 1953-58, then from 1958 to 1960 at Andhra University, Waltair, to study philosophy. He received his MA in philosophy from Osmania University in 1964.
He was the personal assistant of N. G. Ranga (Professor of Economics at Pachaiyappa's College, Madras, Chennai) from 1959 to 1961; in college, he was friends with AvulaGopalakrishna Murthy, the humanist leader in Andhra.
He contributed articles (writing in Telugu) to the Radical Humanist weekly, the Sameeksha monthly, the Vidyarthi educational monthly, and a number of English magazines, such as the Radical Humanist weekly and monthly, the Indian Rationalist monthly, The Secularist bimonthly, and Freedom First.. He also contributed to American publications, by writing articles for the Encyclopedia of Unbelief (edited by Gorden Stein) and the New Encyclopedia of Unbelief (edited by Thomas W. Flynn); and to American Atheist Magazine (published by American Atheist), the Center for Inquiry magazine Free Inquiry.
He is married to VenigallaKomala. She retired from Ambedkar Open University, Hyderabad, and translated M.N. Roy's Memoirs of Cat. His son, NarisettiRaju, is managing editor of the Washington Post,Raju also was editor of Wall Street Journal Europe and managing editor of the Wall Street Journal in New York.

Dr.NagabhairavaJayaprakash Narayan:
Dr. Jayaprakash Narayan, widely known as JP, is a noted Indian politician, social reformer, TV commentator and columnist. He is the President of LokSatta Party and currently a Member of the Legislative Assembly from Kukatpally constituency in Andhra Pradesh.[1] He is also a former Indian public administrator. He is well known for his role in bringing electoral reforms and for his columns on democracy in leading Indian daily newspapers.

NagabhairavaJayaprakash Narayan was born on Jan 14th, 1956 in Godavarru Village near Vijayawada in Andhra Pradesh.[citation needed] He was raised in Maharashtra in his early years. He joined Andhra Loyola College in 1969 for his intermediate education. He obtained his medical degree from Guntur Medical College.
Jayaprakash Narayan, a physician, joined public administration after making it to I.A.S. in 1980 standing all India second. He worked on agriculture, irrigation, technology and youth rehabilitation projects in various capacities in various districts of Andhra Pradesh. He had an eventful 16-year-long career in the government. Some of his achievements include:
Rehabilitation of 8000 youth from displaced families of the Visakhapatnam Steel Plant.
Designed the reconstruction of drainage and irrigation network in Krishna, Prakasham and Godavari deltas. He successfully mobilized the farmers on a large scale to take up irrigation schemes to bring more than two lakh acres under irrigation.
Strengthened the credit cooperatives by making them independent of government control.
Served as a Secretary to both the Governor and The Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh Dr. NT Ramarao.
Dr. JP’s experience in government convinced him that the faulty governance process is the biggest hurdle in India’s path of progress. He resigned from the I.A.S in 1996, as he wanted to work on grass roots for good governance. Jayaprakash Narayan, an optimistic individual, talks about the efficacy of reforms in the governance, Economy of Andhra Pradesh among several other issues on various platforms in educational and political institutes. He emphasizes that democracy is for the people, of the people and by the people.
He started the LokSatta party in 2006 with clean politics and good governance and improvement of India as the main agenda. While launching the political party, he stated that this party aimed to enrich the political scenario in India with its true spirit and felt that it would be considered as an alternative to any other political party, since it aimed to create a true and faithful political picture in India without involving illegitimate money, liquor and caste in elections.