Person · peasant-struggle martyr
Doddi Komaraiah
Also known as Komaraiah
The first martyr of the 1946-1951 Telangana Armed Struggle, Doddi Komaraiah (1915 - 4 July 1946), a Golla-caste peasant from Kadivendi village in Jangaon district who was shot dead by the Nizam of Hyderabad's police while leading a mass agitation against the vetti (forced-labour) system and the Nizam's deshmukh landlords. His killing triggered the 1946 Communist Party-led Telangana peasant uprising that spread across 4,000 villages in Nalgonda, Warangal and Khammam districts over the next five years. The 1951 end of the struggle after the 1948 Operation Polo integration of Hyderabad into India produced the current Telangana land-tenure reforms.
- Date
- 1915–1946
- Function
- Social reform & movement
- Confidence
- Established / referenced
Connections (1)
- AnalogueKomaram Bheem
Doddi Komaraiah's 4 July 1946 death at Kadivendi village (killed by Nizam's police while leading an anti-vetti agitation) opened the Telangana Armed Struggle (1946-1951), extending the earlier Komaram Bheem Gond rebellion (1928-1940) into an organised Communist Party-led peasant movement across the Nalgonda, Warangal and Khammam districts. Both were ancestral land-rights fighters against the Nizam of Hyderabad's exploitative regime.
Sources
Standard biography; regional historiography.
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