GREAT PERSONS (EMINENT Personalities) Details in nalgonda

    
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Nalgonda district has been popular since ancient times and attracted many scholars from far and near. Noted centres of learning such as Vijayapuri, Pillalamarri, Kolanpaka, Panugal and Rachakonda made Nalgonda district the destination of literary pursuits in the past. The various inscriptions found in this district testify to the patronage which the western Chalukyas, Kakatiyas and the Recherla Chiefs of Rachakonda and Devarakonda gave to literary activity. The Prasasti Kavyas of epigraphically poets give us an insight into the literary traditions prevalent in those days.

The court poets of the Recherla Chiefs, Visvesvara and his disciple Pusapati Naga Nadhudu belonged to the later half of the fourteenth century A.D. Visvervara was the author of Chamatkara Chandrika. Pusapati Naga Nadhudu rendered Sri Vishnupuranam into Telugu Koravi Satyanarayana was another poet of the same century who belonged to Rachakonda in the distict. He wrote "Ramayanamu" Singana of Erchur in the district, who lived in the 15th and 16th centuries A.D. was the author of the famous Kuvalayasva Charita. He also has the credit of translating the seventh chapter of Baharatam into Telugu. The prominent literary celebrities of the 17th century A.D. are Ponvgoti Jagannadha Rao, the author of Kumudavalti Vilasamu and Karpuram Krishnamacharyulu, the author of Bhagavadgita, a Dvipada Kavya



1
    Late Shri. Raavi Narayana Reddy
Freedom Fighter
Member of Andhra Maha Sabha Bollepally,Bhongir

2
    Shri. Kodati Narayana Rao
Freedom Fighter
Writer
Grandhalaya Movement
Repala
Munagala
3     Late Shri. Pulijala Venkata Ranga Rao
Freedom Fighter
Chairman, Andhra Maha Sabhas
at Deverakonda and Khammam
Nalgonda
4     Late Shri. Aarutla Ramachandra Reddy
Freedom Fighter
Movement against Nizam
Kolanpaka
5     Late Smt. Aarutla Kamala Devi
Fredom Fighter
Movement against Nizam
Kolanpaka
6     Late Shri. Laxmi Narsimha Reddy
Freedom Fighter
Movement against Nizam
Kolanpaka
7     Late Shri. Kondala Rao
Freedom Fighter
Called as "Deverakonda Gandhi"
Deverakonda
8     C.V. Chary
Bhoodan & Sarvodaya Movement
Deverakonda
9     Late Shri. Shabnaveesu Venkata
Narsimha Rao
Editor, ‘Neelagiri’
First Magazine in the state of Hyderabad
Nalgonda
10     Late Shri. Peda Venkata Rama Rao
Leader of Andhra Maha Sabha
Ex-MLA and Ex-MP
Nalgonda
11     Late Shri. Kancharla Rama Krishna Reddy
An Senior leader in the Congress
Movement against Nizam
Nalgonda
12     Shri. A. Hari Kishan Rao
Movement against Nizam
Founder of Andhra Saraswatha Parishad
13     Late Shri. Rama Chandra Reddy
First donor of Bhoodan under
the leadership of Vinobha Bhave
Surveil
14     Late Shri. D. Venkateswara Rao
Leader of Communist Party (M)
Movement against Nizam
15     Late Shri. Nimmala Ramulu
Movement against Nizam
Aryasamaj Movement
Bhoodan Movement
Ex-MLA
16     Shri. Narra Raghava Reddy
Leader of Communist Party
Folk Culture
Telangana Movement against Nizam
Ex-MLA
17     Late Shri. Chakilam Ranga Rao
Movement against Nizam
Grandhalaya Movement
Vallabhapuram
18     Late Shri. Narsimha Rao
Movement against Nizam
Grandhalaya Movement
Andhra Maha Sabha
Anantharam
19     Late Shri. Ummethala Kesava Rao
Older Leader of Congress
Grandhalaya Movement
Bhoodam Movement
Prohibition Movement
Writer
Pillalamarri