Uyyalawada Narasimha Reddy was a Polygar (also called Paalegaru) i.e. Uyyalawada Narasimha Reddy was a local ruler called as Palegaadu(polygar) for more than 60 villages in Kadapa, anantapur,prakasam,bellary and kurnool district of rayalaseema region of Andhra Pradesh were under his control at the time of 1840′s. Encouraged by the discontent of others, Reddy became the figurehead for an uprising.An armed group, initially comprising those dispossessed of inam lands around Koilakuntla, was led by Reddy's Right-hand man Vadde Obanna in July 1846. On 22 February 1847, he was executed in Koilkuntla in front of a crowd of over 2000 people. Reddy, too, was convicted and in his case received the death penalty. Majjera Narasimha Reddy, also known as Uyyalawada Narasimha Reddy, was the youngest of three brothers who were related to the polygar of Uyyalawada through their father's side of the family.K Venugopal Reddy, history professor at the University of Pondicherry, in his book Narasimha Reddy and his family lived off a paltry sum by way of pension which was provided as relief to the families of disposed rajas and polygars.“Their (polygar) faith in the goodness of the government was shaken by the new regulations pertaining to their inheritance, leaving the families in anxiety…The village chieftains, who were everything for the village community, were clearly upset with the discontinuances in their ancient privileges,” Venugopal writes.Speaking to TNM, Andhra based historian Nagi Reddy opines that the polygars were the most suited to wage a war against the Britishers in Andhra then. Gopala Reddy is one among the members of the 22 families that claim to be the heirs of Narasimha Reddy. As a grandson of Jayaram Reddy, the last powerful Zamindar of Nossam, he was sorely disappointed when the Government refused to pay him any portion of the lapsed pension of that family. “Most of the folklore surrounding Narasimha Reddy in Uyyalawada is through the Suddula vallu or the traditional storytellers,” Gopala Reddy, a fifth generation heir of Narasimha Reddy tells TNM. The Polygars and other higher-status people who preferred the old agrarian system "represented the decadent social order", were in many cases "upstarts" and "were also the heirs of a social system in which various orders of Hindu society were integrated through ages". The trailer of 'Sye Raa' shows Narasimha Reddy as a patriot of 'Bharat', but historians say that the 1846 rebellion wasn’t about nationalism.Talking about history, there is very little available in the public domain about Narasimha Reddy, hailed as the 19What made a man from a prominent family in Koilkuntala taluk in AP organise an army of 5,000 villagers and rise up against the tyranny of the British?TNM talked to a couple of historians and the kin of Uyyalawada Narasimha Reddy to know more about the unsung hero and why Narasimha Reddy is still a respected figure of Renaadu. In some cases, it coincided with a punishment because among the dispossessed were those who had recently been involved in fighting the EIC in the The changes, which included the introduction of the ryotwari system and other attempts to maximise revenue, deprived village headmen and other higher-status people of their role as revenue collectors and position as landholders, while also impacting on lower-status cultivators by depleting their crops and leaving them impoverished. Uyyalawada Narasimha Reddy is credited to be one of the first freedom fighters in India. He and his commander-in-chief Vadde Obanna were at the heart of the rebellion against British in 1847, where 5,000 peasants … “My forefather Budda Vengal Reddy (a famous philanthropist) and Narasimha Reddy were friends. While their ambition was to retain power and property, the peasants had long-standing grievances against the British. He moved from place to place and sheltered himself in thepi hill forts of the Erramalas and Nallamalas, and though pursued by troops from Cuddapah and Kurnool, he continued to commit his ravages in Koilkuntla and Cumbum. Fifty three-year-old Doravari Dastagiri Reddy is the direct descendant of Uyyalawada Narasimha Reddy, one of the first persons from the Telugu region who rebelled against the British Raj and fought three wars in the 1840s.

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