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 Sivanath Mamilla

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 (శ్రీమతి డొక్కా సీతమమ గారు
(అన్న పూర్ ణ))

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 It’s a legacy etched in the hearts
of Andhra people…..

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• Former speaker of Lok Sabha, GMC Bala Yogi,
during his visit to London, had a chance to view
the portrait of Dokka Seethamma, with the
caption ‘the most charitable woman of South
India’ in royal place.
• On his return to India, he enquired about her
heirs in 1999 at Amalapuram. Subsequently, a
statue of her was unveiled and an aqueduct was
named after her on Vynateya, a tributary to
Godavari.
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• 'The Guest Is God': The Hospitality of a Hindu Saint
• The story of a holy woman who sacrificed her
life's dream--and her dying wish--in order to
serve the poor.

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• Seethamma was born into a well-to-do orthodox
Brahmin family in Mandapaka, East Godavari
District. Her father, the erudite Bhavani Sankar,
earned the sobriquet ‘Buvvanna Sastry’ for his
feeding the poor.
• Seethamma inherited this noble trait and
unswervingly tread the path of her father till her
last breath. Her doting hubby Dokka Venkata
Joganna’s unflinching support further helped her
continue her charity work even after his demise.
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 1841-1909
• Smt. Dokka Sithamma lived in a remote village
Lankala Gannavaram (konaseema)on the
banks of holy river the Godavari in Andhra
Pradesh,
• Her name is synonymous with ANNADANAM,
feeding the people in need with kindness and
hospitality

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 "Annadanam Samam Danam
Trilokeshu Na Vidhathe"
• Srimati Dokka Seethamma garu (Annapurna)
sacrifice her entire life for the benefit of
human beings by the way of offering Anna
prasadam to many people during the British
period - before independence.
• British authorities recognize her service to
humanity and they want to honor her but
Seethamma garu refused the same.

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• During the days when there was no media,
even the culture of news paper reading was
not, developed, her name in charity and
hospitality crossed not only the states in India,
but the boundaries of the continent.

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• Her photograph was inaugurated in the main
hall of the Royal Palace of London by the then
Ruler, King Edward VII on 01.01.1903.
• The photograph installed in 1903 was
witnessed by the then Hon. Speaker of our
Lok Sabha, Sri GMC Balayogi in the year 2000
when he had visited the palace in London.

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 What couldn’t stop her for four decades!
https://www.beliefnet.com/faiths/hinduism/2000/03/the-guest-
is-god-the-hospitality-of-a-hindu-saint.aspx
• Superstition: To remain confined to her house as a
Brahmin widow should.
• No husband , No children - Sitamma adopted the poor
as her sons and daughters
• orthodox Brahmins and their condemnation , their
humiliation , calumnies and threats couldn’t deter her
• Her large holdings reduced year after year until she
was left with a small plot of land.
• A famine came and failed to stop Sitamma will to serve
the needy
• Her dying wish to go Varanasi- Her belief system

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• https://www.thehindu.com/entertainment/th
eatre/Play-Dokka-Seethamma-On-a-life-well-
lived/article16834071.ece

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 Ponaka Kanakamma

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 Revolutionary
Viplava kanika

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 Writer , reformer , philonthropist and
freedom fighter

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 Associated with @people
• Bipin chandra pal
• Gandhi
• Alluri sitarama raju
• Home rule – Annie Besant
• Babu Rajendraprasad
• Desabandhu Chittaranjan Dass
• Tikkavarapu rami reddy
• Bezawada gopal reddy
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 Associated with @ movements
• 'Vande Mataram’ Movement
• Library movement
• Salt-Satyagraha
• non-cooperation movement
• Andhra mahasabha – 1917 – resolution to
bring women into politics
• Jamin rythu sangh against zamindari

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 Social reform
• Against superstition
• For women education
• For swadeshi
• Upliftment of Harijan and poor
• Health activism
• Against zamindari

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 established
• 'Sujana Ranjani samajam'
• 'Vivekananda Granthalayam'
• Kasturi Vidyalam(School for girls)
• Pinakini Satygrahasramam

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• Ponaka Kanakamma was born in Nellore district, on 10 June
1892 at Minagallu.
• Her father was Marupooru Konda Reddy and mother:
Kaamamma.
• She hailed from a very rich landlord community.
• She got married in her Maternal luncle Subbarama Reddy,
a rich landlord from Potlapudi Village, near Nellore.
• She was eight years old at the time of her marriage.
• As her husband was traditional, she was not allowed to
go to school.Though she had no formal schooling, she
acquired proficiency in Telugu, Hindi and Sanskrit by her
own efforts.

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• In 1907, when Bipinchendrapal and his wife visited Nellore in
connection with 'Vande Mataram Movement', She hosted the
couple.
• At that time she was only 16 years of age.
• With the help of her youngest brother in Law Pattabhiramareddy,
who was involved in Library movement,she established 'Sujana
Ranjani samajam' and 'Vivekananda Granthalayam' in Potlapudi
village, near Nellore to serve the society.
• Her friends started libraries in nearby villages Pogadadoruvu
kandrika and Kotturu.
• She worked for the uplift of Harijan and poor.
• From 1916 to 1919 for a brief period, she was under the spell of
revolutionary politics and later became the ardent disciple of
Mahatma Gandhi.

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• She purchased 13 acres of land in Pallipadu village about 8 miles from
Nellore on the banks of river Penna and handed over the land to her
revolutionary friends for concealing fire arms and for firing practice.
• When she became the follower of Mahatma, she donated the land to
establish the "Pinakini Satygrahasramam".
• Gandhiji inaugurated the 'Pinakini Satyagraha Ashram' on 7 April 1921.
• Chaturuvedula Krishnaiah(C.V.Krishna), Digumarti Hanumanta Rao, his wife
Krishnabai and Kondiparti Punnaya were the founder Members of the
Ashram.
• Kanakamma participated in non-cooperation movement and in Salt
Satyagraha.
• She underwent six months rigorous imprisonment in 1930 in Rayavellore
prison and in 1932 imprisoned in Rayavellore for 13 months.
• Rajajee, Durgabai, Bejawada Gopala Reddy and many other important
freedom fighters were her co prisoners.

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• In 1923, Kanakamma founded Sri Kasturidevi Vidyalam(School for girls)
under Gandhiji's constructive programme, the school was inaugurated by
Tanguturi Prakasam Pantulu.
• Gandhiji laid the foundation stone for the permanent building of the
school on 12 May 1929.
• Later she exchanged this site to a sprawling 20 acre of land in the outskirts
of Nellore and a school building was built in this site in around 1947 or so
for which Sri Tikkavarapu Ramireddy donated Rs 50.000.
• Kasturidevi Vidyalam campus, is the living monument for Kanakamma.
• For some time, she acted as a member of AICC.
• She also acted as vice-president of Andhra Congress committee.
• After she lost her only daughter, M.Venkatasubbamma in 1934, who was a
budding writer and social worker, she became a devotee of Ramana
Maharshi and Ramayogi of Annareddy palem.

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• Ponaka Kanakamma and Dronamraju Lakshmibaiyamma
were the first twin poetesses in Telugu.
• They wrote several philosophical poems on Ramana
Maharshi - important ones are Aradhana and Nivedyam.
• They translated essence of Bhagavadgita into Telugu by
name "Gnana Netram".
• She wrote the auto-biography of Sri Rama Yogi, both in
Telugu and English.
• Kankamma was an accomplished write and her writings
appeared in Bharati, Krishnapatrika, Grihalakshmi, Anasuya,
Hindu sundari J aminryot and in many other journals.
• She lost her property due to the tyranny and repression of
Venkatagiri Zameendar.
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 Ramana maharshi

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• She established in 1952 an industrial training centre for poor, orphan and
under-privileged women.
• During her life, she hosted many eminent freedom fighters and poets at
her residence in Potalpudi and in Nellore.
• National leaders like Babu Rajendraprasad, Desabandhu Chittaranjan
Dass, Artists Udayasanker, Atreya, Sthanam, Tiruvankur sisters and many
others were her guests.
• She is the recipient of 'Gruhlakshmi Swarnakankanam' Sanmanam(Award
felicitation).
• On the occasion of the silver jubilee celebrations of Madras Mahila Sabha
organisation, Smt. Durga Bhai Deshmukh honored Kanakamma with a
silver plank.
• Kankamma and all other her family members are writers, whose writings
are found in Bharati and in other magazines. Her youngest brother "Kala
Prapurna" Marupuru Kodandarami Reddy is a famous journalist and noted
writer

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 Pinakini Satyagraha (Gandhi) Ashram

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 Not in syllubus

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 LAKSHMIBAYAMMA UNNAVA (1882–
1950)

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• Lakshmibayamma Unnava was a revolutionary social activist and
Gandhian of Andhra Pradesh.
• She was born in 1882 in Ameenabad, a village in the Guntur district,
and belonged to a middle class Niyogi Brahmin family.
• Being the youngest in the family, she had a liberal upbringing and
also received traditional schooling.
• She was married to Unnava Lakshminarayana, a writer and
philosopher, at the age of ten.
• His thought had a deep and lasting influence on her, and many of
his ideas found expression in her public speeches. G
• andhi’s ideas also greatly influenced her.
• Others who inspired her were Subbayamma Duvvuri ,Ponka
Kanakamma and Yaminipurna. They were all her close associates in
the Non Co-operation Movement.

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• In 1910 she began to work for causes like widow remarriage, and
the following year she entered politics at the provincial level by
joining the movement for a separate Andhra province.
• In 1921 she participated in the Non Co-operation Movement.
• Between 1911 and 1942 she was imprisoned six times for
participating in this, the salt Satyagraha and the Quit India
Movement.
• As a social reformer she envisaged establishing a school for women
so that destitute women, widows and orphans might find a better
place in society.
• In 1923 she founded Sarada Niketan, a residential school for
women from all strata of society.

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• The school conferred Sahiti and Vidhushi degrees, and later obtained
affiliation to the Andhra University.
• Apart from her social activities Lakshmibayamma was active in politics
too.
• She toured the whole region of Andhra giving public lectures and
exhorting the people to join the freedom struggle.
• At the time of the Quit India Movement, she made a memorable speech at
the Nellore Town Hall.
• In 1921 she also participated in the Forest Movement.
• After Independence she retired from politics, as indisposition and old age
made it impossible for her to work as hard as in the past.
• After a prolonged fight against illness, Lakshmibayamma died in 1950.
• Controversies over the management of Sarada Niketan of which she was
the Trustee and guardian dogged her at the end.
• Nevertheless she remains a memorable figure.

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 Duvvuri Subbamma

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• Duvvuri Subbamma (15 November 1881 – 31
May 1964) was an Indian independence
activist who played an important role in
the Indian independence movement.
• She was one of the founders of the women's
congress committee

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• Subbamma was born in 1880 in Daksharamam, East
Godavari district, Andhra Pradesh.
• A child bride, she was married at the age of ten.
• She was widowed at a very young age.
• After her husband's death, she took up activism and joined
the Quit India Movement against the British Raj.
• She took part in the civil disobedience movement and
strongly advocated total freedom from British rule in India.
• In 1922 she organized the women's congress committee.
• In 1923 she organized a meeting in Kakinada, Andhra
Pradesh, where hundreds of women volunteers attended
the Kakinada Congress Mahasabha.

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• Subbamma organized Andhra Mahila Sabhas that trained and educated
women in the national freedom movement and was instrumental in
galvanizing support of the women in the Indian independence movement.
• She extensively traveled throughout Andhra Pradesh promoting women's
empowerment.
• Together with other activists like Nadimpalli, Sundaramma helped set up
the Goteti Manikyamba, Andhra Mahasabha, and T. Varakshmamma
organizations.
• Subbamma was arrested and incarcerated in the Rajahmundry prison for
one year due to her activities on behalf of the civil disobedience
movement.
• She also spent a year in the Rayavellore prison for taking part in the Salt
March.
• She aggressively spoke out and worked for the abolition
of untouchability in India.
• She is memorialized with a bust in the Freedom Park in Rajahmundry.

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