Nisha Rathode (Editor)

Tallapragada Prakasarayudu

Updated on
Edit
Like
Comment
Share on FacebookTweet on TwitterShare on LinkedInShare on Reddit
Name
  
Tallapragada prakasarayudu

Tallapragada Prakasarayudu was an Indian social worker, social reformer and Gandhian. Prakasarayudu was born in April, 1893 at Unguturu, a village in West Godavari District of Andhra Pradesh, India. He died in 1988.

Contents

Education

High School at Tanuku, West Godavari, Andhra Pradesh India. B.A. from the Arts College, Rajahmundry, Andhra Pradesh, India. M.A. English Literature from calcutta University.

Mentors

Kandukuri Veeresalingam Pantulu, the great social reformer of Andhra. Raghupati Venkata Ratnam Naidu, great Educationist and Social Reformer of Andhra. Mahatma Gandhi

Associates

Gudipati Venkaachalam, a great writer especially on women's emancipation who was thought to be much ahead of his time.

Chilakamarthi Lakshmi Narasimham, eminent writer popularly known as the 'blind bard of Telugu People.'

Swami Seetharam

Raoji Bhai Patel

Kamaraju Hanumantha Rao

Career

  • One year as Teacher in Hitakarini School, Rajahmundry in 1919.
  • Freedom Movement.
  • Textile Commissioner of Anantapur District Andhra Pradesh in 1947.
  • Principal, Gramasevaka Vidyalayam, Gopannapalem.
  • Headed a Guru kula type of school in Tenali 1952-55.
  • Chief Adviser and Supervising Authority for Khadi production centres in Andhra Pradesh for a long time.
  • Chairman/Member of the Editorial Board of Gandhi Memorial Trust in Andhra Pradesh.
  • Principal of the Ponnala Rural Sanitation Training Centre under The Andhra pradesh Gandhi Memrial Trust.
  • Member of the Editorial Board of Andhra Geervana Vidya Parishad, Kovvur, West Godavari District, Andhra Pradesh.
  • Secretary/President of Andhra Brahma Sadhana Ashram.

    • Imprisonment

    At Rajahmundry, Bellary, Vellore and Coimbatore jails. Suffered 36 baton blows at the hands of police and fell senseless at Bhimavaram during freedom struggle.

    Eulogies

    'Swaatantra Samara Yodh' by his admirers. "Last Gandhian in the State of Andhra Pradesh" - Durga Bai Deshmukh

    Inclinations

  • Brahmo Samaj.
  • Freedom movemwnt
  • National Integration.
  • Social Reform.
  • Religious Harmony
  • Khadi
  • Eradication of untouchability
  • Basic Education
  • Village self-rule
  • National education
  • Anti-dowry movement
  • Eradication of casteism.

    • Institutions founded

  • National School, Rajahmundry.
  • Ananda Niketan Ashram, Chagallu
  • Dharma Jyothi Magazine

    • References

    Tallapragada Prakasarayudu Wikipedia
    (Text) CC BY-SA