MUTUKURI GOWDAPPA.. GOUD HE was a village head of village ternekal in Adoni _District in present day AP state. The distrcts Ballary, kadapa, karnul and Anantppur were formery under Nizam of Hyderabad. However The NIZAM got the English troops stationed in Hyderabad for his protection and he had to pay yearly some amont to the East India Company. However The Nizam found it difficult tk pay the annual sum and in lieu he ceded the above four districts, to the English and asked them to collect the money from the district revenue. This was in 1800 oct 12. the Englishmen imposed high taxes on farmers and this was much resented by them. The ceded districts were under collector thomos manroe with four sub collectors. William thakre was a sub collectorcollectorat Adoni.
Agitated villagers of ternekal led by gowdappa, and village officers reached the office to give representation on the imposed taxes where they met srinivas rao the govt representative. at that time there were four more persons were with srinivas rao and these men were against the village ternekal and it's people. They mocked at the villagers that nawabs rule was over and company rule was there. This was much resented by the villagers. Soon serious clash took place and the villagers with drawn swords attacked srinivas rao and his friends. Four friends of Rao were killed and srinivas rai was, spared being a brahmin. he was allowed to let go after a condition that he would not reveal any thing to the administration. after few days Rao informed sub collector about the serious incident and the furious thakre attacked the village with four hundred troops. Villagers did not agree to pay the increased taxes and decided to fight. The village was enclosed in a fort with strong doors. The battle at the main door lasted for 15 days. The main doors were blown up by the large cannons brought later and they killed many villagers with guns and matchlocks. Gowdappa and two more village officers were arrested and they were hanged in the evening to the village entrance.
GOWDAPPA and others vanished into pages of history in course of time. he led this, revolt 45 years before another rebel leader uyyalawada narsimha reddy from karnul district. However no research has been done on this great son of India and caste politics are blamed for the apathy of the govt.
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