Sardar Sarvai Papanna Goud

The 17-century Telangana peasant-chief Sardar Sarvai Papanna Goud (1649-1724), a Goud-caste toddy-tapper's son from Khilashapur village in Jangaon district who built a 70-fort peasant kingdom across the Telangana Deccan between 1687 and 1710 by defying both the collapsing Qutb Shahi Golconda sultanate (fallen to Aurangzeb 1687) and the subsequent Mughal subahdari. Papanna's armies drawn from the oppressed Goud, Mala and Madiga communities seized Shahabad, Bhongir, Tatikonda and 67 other forts. He was captured and executed by the Mughal subahdar in 1724. The modern Telangana Goud-caste political movement (BRS/BRS predecessor TRS from 2001) treats Papanna as its ancestral hero; the 2016 Hyderabad statue honours him.