Jayadheer Tirumala Rao (born 20 June 1950) is a professor, poet, and historian from

Telangana Telangana (; , ) is a States and union territories of India, state in India situated on the south-central stretch of the Indian subcontinent, Indian peninsula on the high Deccan Plateau. It is the List of states and union territories of India b ...

, India. He has been researching about tribal people and their culture for more than 35 years.

Life

Jayadheer Tirumala Rao graduated from

Telugu university The Potti Sreeramulu Telugu University (PSTU) is one of the few Indian language universities in India. University It was established as "Telugu University" on 2 December 1985 through an Act of Legislation (Act No. 27 of 1985) by the State Legi ...

in 1974. He became interested in studying the Gonds and

Chenchu The Chenchus are a Dravidian tribe, a designated Scheduled Tribe in the Indian states of Andhra Pradesh, Telangana, Karnataka and Odisha. They are an aboriginal tribe whose traditional way of life been based on hunting and gathering. The Chen ...

tribes spread in southern Indian forests. He gathered the oral histories of several tribes like Koyas as part of his research. He was elected as the president of Telangana writers forum in 2014. In 2017, he conducted an exhibition in

Ravindra Bharathi Ravindra Bharathi is an auditorium located in Hyderabad, Telangana, India. It was named after Rabindranath Tagore. History On 23 March 1960, the then Governor of Uttar Pradesh and a former Chief minister of Andhra State, Bezawada Gopala Re ...

, Hyderabad with the items he had collected from various places in the

Deccan Plateau The large Deccan Plateau in southern India is located between the Western Ghats and the Eastern Ghats, and is loosely defined as the peninsular region between these ranges that is south of the Narmada river. To the north, it is bounded by the ...

. In 2019, an open music exhibition was conducted showcasing more than 100 varieties of musical instruments collected by him. In 2021, he organized another exhibition which showcased rare manuscripts at State Art Gallery, Madhapur. He documented the oral history of Sammakka Saralamma popular deities among the tribal people. He promotes state policy changes to continue the tribal arts and culture for future generations.

Works

He wrote a series of essays with the title ''Tovva Muchatlu'' in Andhra Bhoomi from 2011 to 2018. In these articles he depicted cultural, economic, and socio-political issues. He wrote three poetry books: ''Aranya Nethram'', ''Prathi Dhvanulu'', ''Aagraha Geethalu''.

References

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