Tanguturi Prakasam Panthulu (23 August 1872 – 20 May 1957) was an Indian jurist, political leader, social reformer, and
anti-colonial nationalist who served as the
chief minister
A chief minister is an elected or appointed head of government of – in most instances – a sub-national entity, for instance an administrative subdivision or federal constituent entity. Examples include a state (and sometimes a union terri ...
of the
Madras Presidency. Tanguturi subsequently became the first chief minister of the erstwhile
Andhra State
Andhra State (IAST: ; ) was a state in India created in 1953 from the Telugu-speaking northern districts of Madras State. The state was made up of this two distinct cultural regions – Rayalaseema and Coastal Andhra. Andhra State did not incl ...
, created by the partition of
Madras State
Madras State was a state of India during the mid-20th century. At the time of its formation in 1950, it included the whole of present-day Tamil Nadu (except Kanyakumari district), Coastal Andhra, Rayalaseema, the Malabar region of North and ...
along the linguistic lines. Tanguturi was known as "Andhra Kesari" which translates to "Lion of Andhra". The
Andhra Pradesh
Andhra Pradesh (, abbr. AP) is a state in the south-eastern coastal region of India. It is the seventh-largest state by area covering an area of and tenth-most populous state with 49,386,799 inhabitants. It is bordered by Telangana to the ...
government issued G.O RT-2500 on 10 August 2014 declaring his birth anniversary a State holiday.
''naajeevitayatrata-tanguturi-prakasham-gari-jeevita-charitra''
Early life
Tanguturi Prakasam Panthulu was born into a
Telugu language, Telugu speaking family of Subbamma and Gopalakrishnayya
''naajeevitayatrata-tanguturi-prakasham-gari-jeevita-charitra'' in the village of
Vinodarayunipalem, from
Ongole
Ongole is a city in Prakasam district of the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh. It is the headquarters of Prakasam district and also the mandal headquarters of Ongole mandal in Ongole revenue division. Ongole cattle, an indigenous breed of oxen, ...
in
Madras presidency (now
Prakasam district, Andhra Pradesh). When he was 11, his father died and his mother had to run a boarding house at Ongole, a profession that was looked down upon at the time.
When E. Hanumantha Rao, his teacher at school, moved to
Rajamahendravaram
Rajahmundry, officially known as Rajamahendravaram, is a city in the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh and District headquarters of East Godavari district. It is the sixth most populated city in the state. During British rule, the District of Rajah ...
, he took Prakasam along with him as that place had better opportunities for education. He acted in ''
Gayopakhyanam
''Gayopakhyanam'' ( Telugu: గయోపాఖ్యానం) is a Telugu play written by Chilakamarti Lakshmi Narasimham in 1890. It is also called Prachanda Yadavam (The story of fierce Yadava King - Sri Krishna). This play is the forerunner ...
'' by
Chilakamarti Lakshmi Narasimham in 1890 along with his teacher.
[100 years of Gayopakhyanam, Andhra Pradesh, April 2010 edition, pp: 64.] He was interested in becoming a lawyer since childhood, but Prakasam failed his
matriculation
Matriculation is the formal process of entering a university, or of becoming eligible to enter by fulfilling certain academic requirements such as a matriculation examination.
Australia
In Australia, the term "matriculation" is seldom used now ...
examination. However, he managed to go to
Madras and become a second-grade
pleader
A special pleader was a historical legal occupation. The practitioner, or "special pleader" in English law specialised in drafting "pleadings", in modern terminology statements of case.
History
Up to the 19th century, there were many rules, tech ...
. Returning to Rajamahendravaram, he eventually became a successful lawyer. He was elected as Municipal Chairman of Rajamahendravaram in 1904 when he was 31 years old. This election was a tough one at that point in time. He was funded for his education by zamindar Kanchumarthi Ramachandra Rao, who was at that time being guarded by raja
Vogeti Ramakrishnayya
Raja Vogeti Ramakrishnayya (10 October 1830 – 20 June 1900) was born to a ''zamindari'' family of Rajahmundry, India, where he was for a long time an honorary magistrate and municipal councillor, as well as a wealthy landlord who owned more th ...
garu, a wealthy landlord and a municipal councilor for a long time and honorary magistrate at Rajamahendravaram whose hierarchy was taken by Ramachandra rao. Prakasam was given utmost support by Ramachandra rao even though they are in opposite sides of politics.
In England
During one of his professional visits to Madras on a court case, a barrister was impressed with his legal acumen and suggested that he become a barrister. As a second-grade pleader, Prakasam could not argue cases at higher courts as only barristers were allowed to do so. Prakasam took the idea to his heart and decided to go to England to pursue legal studies. It was considered a sacrilege to cross the seas during those days. However, as
Mahatma Gandhi
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (; ; 2 October 1869 – 30 January 1948), popularly known as Mahatma Gandhi, was an Indian lawyer, anti-colonial nationalist Quote: "... marks Gandhi as a hybrid cosmopolitan figure who transformed ... anti- ...
had done before him, Prakasam made a promise to his mother that he would abstain from eating non-vegetarian food, smoking and drinking. He reached England in 1904. In England, he joined the
Royal India Society The Royal India Society was a 20th-century British learned society concerned with India.
The Society has had several names: the India Society (founded 1910); the Royal India Society (from 1944); the Royal India and Pakistan Society; the Royal Indi ...
and worked for the election of
Dadabhai Naoroji to the
House of Commons
The House of Commons is the name for the elected lower house of the bicameral parliaments of the United Kingdom and Canada. In both of these countries, the Commons holds much more legislative power than the nominally upper house of parliament. T ...
.
In the service of public
![Prakasam as barrister](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4b/Prakasam_as_barrister.jpg)
After completing the barrister course with a certificate of honour in London, Prakasam relocated to Madras high court. He was one of the only
Telugu barristers to be successful; until then, most of the successful lawyers were either European or
Tamil
Tamil may refer to:
* Tamils, an ethnic group native to India and some other parts of Asia
**Sri Lankan Tamils, Tamil people native to Sri Lanka also called ilankai tamils
**Tamil Malaysians, Tamil people native to Malaysia
* Tamil language, nativ ...
. He dealt with both civil and criminal cases. Of the latter, one of the important cases was the
Ashe murder case. Ashe was the
Collector of
Tirunelveli
Tirunelveli (, ta, திருநெல்வேலி, translit=Tirunelveli) also known as Nellai ( ta, நெல்லை, translit=Nellai) and historically (during British rule) as Tinnevelly, is a major city in the Indian state of Tam ...
and was shot dead in 1907 by
Vanchinathan
Vanchinatha Iyer (1886 – 17 June 1911), popularly known as Vanchinathan or Vanchi, was an Indian independence activist.
He is best remembered for assassinating Robert Ashe, the Tax Collector of Thirunelveli who was instrumental in closing ...
. This was at a time when
Bipin Chandra Pal
Bipin Chandra Pal ( bn, বিপিন চন্দ্র পাল ; 7 November 1858 – 20 May 1932) was an Indian nationalist, writer, orator, social reformer and Indian independence movement freedom fighter. He was one third of the “ ...
, the nationalist leader from Bengal, was touring the region, making fiery speeches on nationalism. Prakasam defended one of the accused and ensured that he got away with a light sentence. Prakasam also edited ''Law Times'', a legal magazine. The same year he presided over Bipin Chandra Pal's lecture at Madras when others were afraid to come forward, given that the government of the day considered Pal's speeches to border on sedition. He started attending the
Congress Party sessions regularly after the
Lucknow Pact and signed the
Satyagraha pledge in October 1921. He gave up his lucrative law practice. He also started and was the working editor of a newspaper ''Swarajya'' (literally self-rule). The paper was published simultaneously in English, Telugu and Tamil.
Prakasam ran a national school and a ''
khādī
Khadi (, ), derived from khaddar, is a hand-spun and woven natural fibre cloth promoted by Mahatma Gandhi as ''swadeshi'' (self-sufficiency) for the freedom struggle of the Indian subcontinent, and the term is used throughout India, Pakistan ...
'' production centre. He was elected the general secretary of the
Congress Party in December 1921 at the
Ahmedabad session. Whenever there was unrest or strife such as a riot, he tried to be there so as to comfort people. He visited
Punjab
Punjab (; Punjabi: پنجاب ; ਪੰਜਾਬ ; ; also romanised as ''Panjāb'' or ''Panj-Āb'') is a geopolitical, cultural, and historical region in South Asia, specifically in the northern part of the Indian subcontinent, comprising a ...
during Akali Satyagraha and the Hindu-Muslim riots in
Multan
Multan (; ) is a city in Punjab, Pakistan, on the bank of the Chenab River. Multan is Pakistan's seventh largest city as per the 2017 census, and the major cultural, religious and economic centre of southern Punjab.
Multan is one of the old ...
. He toured
Kerala
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during the
Moplah rebellion despite a ban on visitors from outside the area and had his property at
Ooty
Ooty (), officially known as Udhagamandalam (also known as Ootacamund (); abbreviated as Udhagai), is a city and a municipality in the Nilgiris district of the South Indian state of Tamil Nadu. It is located north west of Coimbatore and so ...
attached by the government as a consequence. In 1922, during the
non-cooperation movement
The Non-cooperation movement was a political campaign launched on 4 September 1920, by Mahatma Gandhi to have Indians revoke their cooperation from the British government, with the aim of persuading them to grant self-governance. , he organised a demonstration by 30,000 Congress volunteers at
Guntur. In 1926, he was elected to the
Central Legislative Assembly
The Central Legislative Assembly was the lower house of the Imperial Legislative Council, the legislature of British India. It was created by the Government of India Act 1919, implementing the Montagu–Chelmsford Reforms. It was also sometim ...
on a Congress Party ticket.
Andhra Kesari appellation and struggle for independence
When the
Simon Commission visited
India
India, officially the Republic of India (Hindi: ), is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by area, the second-most populous country, and the most populous democracy in the world. Bounded by the Indian Ocean on the so ...
, public decided to boycott it with the slogan "Simon, go back". There were a host of reasons for this boycott, the most important being that the commission did not have a single Indian in its ranks. The commission was greeted with demonstration of black flags wherever it went. When the commission visited Madras on 3 February 1928, Prakasam Pantulu gave the slogan "Go back Simon Commission".The English soldiers warned the demonstrators headed by Prakasam. They threatened to shoot if they (the demonstrators) moved an inch forward. Prakasam Pantulu baring his breast came forward. This made the British soldiers dumb struck. This exemplary courage earned him the title "Andhra Kesari". After this incident, he was known respectfully as ''"Andhra Kesari"'' (the Lion of Andhra).
![Rajaji with Tanguturi Prakasam](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c2/Rajaji_with_Tanguturi_Prakasam.png)
In 1930, when the Congress party wanted all the legislators to resign, he did so but was not convinced about its alternative programme and hence contested and won the by-election. He joined the
Congress Party led by
Madan Mohan Malaviya
Madan Mohan Malaviya ( (25 December 1861 — 12 November 1946) was an Indian scholar, educational reformer and politician notable for his role in the Indian independence movement. He was president of the Indian National Congress four times and ...
but resigned from it as well and persuaded others to do so after Mahatma Gandhi and the Congress Party broke the salt tax law with the
Dandi March
The Salt March, also known as the Salt Satyagraha, Dandi March and the Dandi Satyagraha, was an act of nonviolent civil disobedience in colonial India led by Mahatma Gandhi. The twenty-four day march lasted from 12 March to 6 April 1930 as a di ...
. Prakasam also resigned as a legislator and was at the forefront in breaking the tax law at Madras. In the meantime, he had to suspend the publication of ''Swarajya'' due to the high deposit demanded by the government. It was revived after the
Gandhi–Irwin Pact
The Gandhi–Irwin Pact was a political agreement signed by Mahatma Gandhi and Lord Irwin, Viceroy of India, on 5 March 1931 before the Second Round Table Conference in London. Before this, Irwin, the Viceroy, had announced in October 1929 a ...
of 1931 but it had to be suspended again due to cash flow problems. Unsuccessful attempts were made to restart it again in 1935.
In 1937, Congress Party contested the provincial elections and achieved majority in
Madras province
The Madras Presidency, or the Presidency of Fort St. George, also known as Madras Province, was an administrative subdivision (presidency) of British India. At its greatest extent, the presidency included most of southern India, including the ...
, among others. Though Prakasam was in the running for Prime Minister's post, he made way for
Rajaji
Chakravarti Rajagopalachari (10 December 1878 – 25 December 1972), popularly known as Rajaji or C.R., also known as Mootharignar Rajaji (Rajaji'', the Scholar Emeritus''), was an Indian statesman, writer, lawyer, and independence activis ...
, who returned to active politics as per the wishes of the
Congress Working Committee
The Congress Working Committee (CWC) is the executive committee of the Indian National Congress. It was formed in December 1920 at Nagpur session of INC which was headed by C. Vijayaraghavachariar. It typically consists of fifteen members electe ...
. Prakasam became the revenue minister – his major contribution was the founding and chairing of the
Zamindari
A zamindar ( Hindustani: Devanagari: , ; Persian: , ) in the Indian subcontinent was an autonomous or semiautonomous ruler of a province. The term itself came into use during the reign of Mughals and later the British had begun using it as ...
Enquiry Committee which looked at the structural distortions in agriculture perpetrated due to the
Zamindari system
A zamindar (Hindustani language, Hindustani: Devanagari: , ; Persian language, Persian: , ) in the Indian subcontinent was an autonomous or semiautonomous Raja, ruler of a province. The term itself came into use during the reign of Mughal Em ...
followed by the British Government. With the onset of
World War II
World War II or the Second World War, often abbreviated as WWII or WW2, was a world war that lasted from 1939 to 1945. It involved the vast majority of the world's countries—including all of the great powers—forming two opposing ...
, the Congress ministries resigned from office as they were not consulted by the government about India's participation. Prakasam was the first prominent leader from South India to offer individual ''
satyagraha'' against the war effort in 1941.
![Tanguturi Prakasam](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/7e/Tanguturi_Prakasam.png)
Prakasam was arrested and jailed for more than three years for participating in the
Quit India movement of 1942. After his release in 1945, he toured South India to get back in touch with the masses.
Prime Minister of Madras Presidency
In 1946, after the Congress' victory in elections in
Madras Presidency, Prakasam became the Prime minister on 30 April 1946, as he and
Kamaraj
Kumaraswami Kamaraj (15 July 1903 – 2 October 1975, hinduonnet.com. 15–28 September 2001), popularly known as Kamarajar was an Indian independence activist and politician who served as the Chief Minister of Madras State (Tamil Nadu) ...
, a Tamil leader, were against Rajaji – the choice of leaders such as Gandhi and
Nehru
Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru (; ; ; 14 November 1889 – 27 May 1964) was an Indian anti-colonial nationalist, secular humanist, social democrat—
*
*
*
* and author who was a central figure in India during the middle of the 20t ...
– becoming the Prime minister. However, the government lasted for only 11 months, as it was felt that Prakasam was not accommodating enough to various interests and corruption charges. As Prakasam went against his interest, Mahatma Gandhi faulted Prakasam for accepting gifts and using party funds, ordered Prakasam to resign from congress party.
![Prakasam](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a8/Prakasam_.png)
During his tenure as Premier, Prakasam publicly declared his intention to scrap all existing textile industries in the province and replace them with ''
khadi
Khadi (, ), derived from khaddar, is a hand-spun and woven natural fibre cloth promoted by Mahatma Gandhi as ''swadeshi'' (self-sufficiency) for the freedom struggle of the Indian subcontinent, and the term is used throughout India, Pakistan ...
'' manufacturing and weaving units.
In February 1947, Communists broke into a full-scale revolt.
On
Vallabhbhai Patel
Vallabhbhai Jhaverbhai Patel (; ; 31 October 1875 – 15 December 1950), commonly known as Sardar, was an Indian lawyer, influential political leader, barrister and statesman who served as the first Deputy Prime Minister and Home Minister of I ...
's advice, Prakasam responded with widespread arrests and tough crackdown on arsonists.
Post-independence
Prakasam visited
Hyderabad State in 1948, while the
Nizam
The Nizams were the rulers of Hyderabad from the 18th through the 20th century. Nizam of Hyderabad (Niẓām ul-Mulk, also known as Asaf Jah) was the title of the monarch of the Hyderabad State ( divided between the state of Telangana, Mar ...
was still in power, although Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru warned against doing so because of concern for his personal safety. He met
Qasim Rizvi
Syed Kasim Razvi (also Qasim Razvi; 17 July 1902 – 15 January 1970) was a politician in the princely state of Hyderabad State, Hyderabad. He was the president of the Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen party from December 1946 until the state's Annex ...
, the leader of the
Razakars, and warned him about "pushing his luck too far"..
In 1952, he formed the
Hyderabad State Praja Party
{{Use Indian English, date=February 2020
Hyderabad State Praja Party, a political party in the Hyderabad State. HSPP was formed in 1951 when Tanguturi Prakasam and Acharya N. G. Ranga broke away from the Indian National Congress.
In April 1951 Ra ...
(Hyderabad State People's party) and ensured that all the sitting ministers of the Congress Party were defeated. However, Praja party could not come into power by its own and the coalition that he put together collapsed even before a show of strength could be contemplated.
Meanwhile, in December 1952,
Potti Sreeramulu
Potti Sreeramulu (IAST: ''Poṭṭi Śreerāmulu''; 16 March 1901 – 15 December 1952), was an Indian freedom fighter and revolutionary. Sreeramulu is revered as ''Amarajeevi'' ("Immortal Being") in the Andhra region for his self-sacrifice for ...
died fasting for the cause of a separate state for the Telugu-speaking people. On 1 October 1953, the state of Andhra was created and Prakasam was unanimous choice for Chief minister of the new state. He was not only the party's choice, but the people's choice too. However, due to corruption charges and opposition from the
communists
Communism (from Latin la, communis, lit=common, universal, label=none) is a far-left sociopolitical, philosophical, and economic ideology and current within the socialist movement whose goal is the establishment of a communist society, a s ...
and halting support from the socialists, the government fell after a year. Mid-term elections were held in 1955 by which time Prakasam had more or less retired from active politics. On 1 November 1956, Telugu-speaking parts of the erstwhile Hyderabad State were merged with
Andhra State
Andhra State (IAST: ; ) was a state in India created in 1953 from the Telugu-speaking northern districts of Madras State. The state was made up of this two distinct cultural regions – Rayalaseema and Coastal Andhra. Andhra State did not incl ...
to form Andhra Pradesh.
Marathi
Marathi may refer to:
*Marathi people, an Indo-Aryan ethnolinguistic group of Maharashtra, India
*Marathi language, the Indo-Aryan language spoken by the Marathi people
*Palaiosouda, also known as Marathi, a small island in Greece
See also
*
* ...
-speaking parts (
Aurangabad
Aurangabad ( is a city in the Indian state of Maharashtra. It is the administrative headquarters of Aurangabad district and is the largest city in the Marathwada region. Located on a hilly upland terrain in the Deccan Traps, Aurangabad is the ...
region) of the Hyderabad state were merged with
Bombay State (which later split into
Gujarat
Gujarat (, ) is a state along the western coast of India. Its coastline of about is the longest in the country, most of which lies on the Kathiawar peninsula. Gujarat is the fifth-largest Indian state by area, covering some ; and the ninth ...
and
Maharashtra) and
Kannada
Kannada (; ಕನ್ನಡ, ), originally romanised Canarese, is a Dravidian language spoken predominantly by the people of Karnataka in southwestern India, with minorities in all neighbouring states. It has around 47 million native s ...
-speaking parts (
Gulbarga region) were merged with
Mysore State
Mysore State, colloquially Old Mysore, was a state within the Dominion of India and the later India, Republic of India from 1947 until 1956. The state was formed by renaming the Kingdom of Mysore, and Bangalore replaced Mysore as the state's c ...
.
Neelam Sanjiva Reddy
Neelam Sanjiva Reddy (; 19 May 1913 – 1 June 1996) was an Indian politician who served as the sixth President of India, serving from 1977 to 1982. Beginning a long political career with the Indian National Congress Party in the independence ...
, a future
President of India
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and a staunch follower of Prakasam, became the chief minister. Prakasam was active in touring the state promoting ''
harijan
Dalit (from sa, दलित, dalita meaning "broken/scattered"), also previously known as untouchable, is the lowest stratum of the castes in India. Dalits were excluded from the four-fold varna system of Hinduism and were seen as forming ...
'' issues (''
dalit
Dalit (from sa, दलित, dalita meaning "broken/scattered"), also previously known as untouchable, is the lowest stratum of the castes in India. Dalits were excluded from the four-fold varna system of Hinduism and were seen as forming ...
'' issues). On one such visit to a ''
harijanwada'' near Ongole, he suffered from severe sunstroke. He was admitted to a Hyderabad hospital and died there on 20 May 1957.
Institutions named after Prakasam
![Tanguturi prakasam panthulu](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f0/Tanguturi_prakasam_panthulu.jpg)
* Sri Tanguturi Prakasam Memorial Institute of Advance Studies in Education, Nellore, SPSR Nellore Dt, Andhra Pradesh.
TPM IASE* Sri Prakasam Government Junior College & High School (1974) –
Addanki
Addanki is a Municipal city in Bapatla district of the Indian State, Andhra Pradesh. Addanki North is the mandal headquarters of Addanki mandal in chirala revenue division.
Geography
Addanki located at . It has an average elevation of 24&nbs ...
,
Prakasam district
*Andhra Kesari Centenary Junior College Degree College –
Rajamahendravaram
Rajahmundry, officially known as Rajamahendravaram, is a city in the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh and District headquarters of East Godavari district. It is the sixth most populated city in the state. During British rule, the District of Rajah ...
* Prakasam Engineering College – Kandukur, Prakasam district
* Sri Tanguturi Prakasam Pantulu Government Junior College –
Yanam
Yanam (Telugu: ''యానాం'') is a town located in the Yanam district in Puducherry. It has a population of 35,000 and is entirely surrounded by Andhra Pradesh. It was formerly a French colony for nearly 200 years, and, though united ...
,
Yanam district
Yanam district is one of the four districts of the Union Territory of Puducherry in India.
Geography
Yanam district occupies an area of ,
It is located south of Kakinada port on the north bank of Godavari river, slightly inland. It is bord ...
(near
East Godavari district
East Godavari is a district in the Coastal Andhra region of Andhra Pradesh, India. Its district headquarters is at Rajahmundry. As of census 2011, it became the most populous district of the state with a population of 5,151,549.
In the Madras Pre ...
)
* Andhra Kesari Yuvajana Samiti – a socio-cultural organisation, est. 1962
*Andhra Kesari Prakasam Junior College –
Chirala
Chirala (), (, Telugu) a city in Bapatla district of the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh. It is a municipality and the headquarters of Chirala mandal in Chirala revenue division. , it had a population of above 170,000.
Chirala is the most popu ...
, Prakasam district
* Prakasam Public School –
Inkollu, Prakasam district
* Andhra Kesari Vidya Kendram Junior College – Ongole, Prakasam district
* Sri Prakasam Vidya Niketan High School, 6-3-609/150/1 –
Anand Nagar Colony,
Hyderabad district
* Andhra Kesari Tanguturi Prakasam Pantulu Government High School (AKTP High School) –
Satyanarayana Puram,
Vijayawada
Vijayawada, formerly known as Bezawada, is the second largest city in the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh and is a part of the state's Capital Region. It is the administrative headquarters of the NTR district. Its metropolitan region comprises N ...
* Prakasam Nagar
Begumpet
Begumpet ("Begum's Place") is a part of Secunderabad, Hyderabad, Telangana, India. Begumpet is named after the daughter of the sixth Nizam ( Mahbub Ali Khan, Asaf Jah VI), Basheer Unnisa Begum, who received it as part of her wedding dowry when ...
Telangana
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* Prakash Nagar (Prakasam Nagar previously), Rajamahendravaram
* Tanguturi Prakasam Pantulu Airport, Rajamahendravaram
* Prakasam centenary Memorial High school, Rajamahendravaram,
* Andhra Kesari Nagar(A.K.Nagar), SPSR Nellore District,
* Nrithya Prakasha Varshini (Bangalore)-Dance school started by Prakasam Grand daughter Shyamala Muralikrishna
Autobiography
![Tanguturi Prakasam final journey](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b6/Tanguturi_Prakasam_final_journey.png)
Prakasam's autobiography is titled ''Naa Jeevitha Yatra (My Life's Journey)'' and published by
Telugu Samithi. This book has four parts – the first two are about his early life and his involvement in freedom fighting in India, the third is about getting independence and government formation in Andhra Pradesh, and the last (written by
Tenneti Viswanadham
Tenneti (Telugu: తెన్నేటి) is an family names. It may also refer to:
* Tenneti Hemalata (1935–1997), Indian Woman writer popularly known as Lata
* Tenneti Viswanadham (1896–1979), Indian Politician from Visakhapatnam
* Tenne ...
) discusses his political career and the changes he brought to Andhra.
Emesco published them as a single hard cover edition in 1972.
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